Windows 98se went on a diet?

[Alzarius]

Well, this is truly...unusual. I got a copy of Windows 98se and installed it on top of Windows 98. So, what happens? Everything goes fine and then when it's over, I check my harddrive space to make sure I had some left as I only had about 300 megs beforehand. What do I find? 700 megs! Huh? This is the first time I can say that I've installed a Microsoft product and it actually gave me space back on my drive. And yes, I run scandisk and other versions of scandisk regularly and it wasn't lost clusters or anything. That 300 megs was about average for weeks now. And it wasn't the swap file. I had the file set to 200/200 megs. Does anyone have a clue how SE managed to free up 400 megs of space? Did Microsoft finally decide to remove some of the excess in Windows? Or did aliens add an extra platter to my drive?

[AuraEdge]

Maybe you havent done a disk cleanup; it may have done that for u and emptyed out all the temps files n such.

[Alzarius]

I would tend to agree with you, except that I always run that as well. However, I wouldn't be surprised if Windows 98 wasn't actually deleting everything it should have and slowly built up a lot of old useless garbage because of this. Possibly 98se had some fix that wiped all this excess out. I suppose it was too much to hope that Windows actually got smaller. Haw!