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From: sills@aerospace.aero.org (Andy Sills)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Ever since I start using windows, strange things keep happening
Keywords: windows,
Message-ID: <93495@aerospace.AERO.ORG>
Date: 5 Dec 90 15:49:34 GMT
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Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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>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. But I can't figure out why I lost 16 meg after using windows.
>
>						Nan

	See if you added a permanent swap file during your
	installation of Windows. The file is called 386SPART.PAR
	and is usually a user choice, especially size. This file
	is hidden, and furthermore needs to be excluded when you
	back up your disk, since it changes often, but is just a
	scratch area.