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> >BTW, if you're not using data compression, you can save lots of bytes in > >W95 by using it. > > Compression also slows down the system. This may or may not be important to you, depending on your > applications. This ranges from somewhat true to totally false, depending on the situation. During compression/decompression the CPU *is* burdened with extra processing; however, (1) this is much worse for compression than decompression, and for big files (like executables ) the former is only done once, and (2) the reduction in data to be transferred to/from the drive speeds overall processing, especially when the CPU is relatively fast and the drive is relatively slow. I use Superstore under DOS/W3.1 on a desktop, and find that data access on my compressed partition is somewhat faster than on the uncompressed partition. I have a compressed virtual disk using Win95OSR2's compression on my TP560, and it is comparable in speed to the uncompressed drive. I used a similar arrangement on my 701, and found the compressed drive to be only marginally slower than the uncompressed one (and I was using maximum compression on that drive). - David