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From: nan@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Nan Zou )
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Ever since I start using windows, strange things keep happening
Keywords: windows,
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Date: 29 Nov 90 16:35:29 GMT
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I've had nothing but problems since I began using windows. After I install the
Orchid Pro II 1024x768x256 drivers, windows tells me 386 protection error, and
I have to reboot everytime. So I'll just use standard mode until I figure the
problem out.

Last night, before I used windows, I did a 'dir' and saw I have about 38 meg 
left on my hard disk. Then I went into windows and changed the setup. Upon exit
I discover now I only had 22 meg!? It seems that windows wrote a big file on my
hard disk. After searching the whole drive I found nothing was added. So I went
to Norton File Size, and it reports 48,949,248 occupied by 1768 files, drive C:
has 85,106,688 capacity, and 23,947,264 was left. Now wait a minute, these num
bers don't add up, if I have 46 meg used up and 83 meg total, it should leave
me about 38 meg, which is what it should be. It seems that there's an invisible
file that take up 16 meg. Everything else runs fine. But I can't figure out why
I lost 16 meg after using windows.

The machine is a 25 Mhz 386 with 4 megs of RAM, the hard disk is a 83M IDE.

As a sidenote, every time I boot up I get a message "WARNIGN: share should be 
loaded for large media". But I've already loaded share in my autoexec. Could
this be related to my disk space problem? I would greatly appreciate any help.

						Nan