How to: Compress a diskette
Solution:
Click the 'Start' button to display the 'Start' menu, select 'Programs', select 'Accessories', select 'System Tools', and select 'DriveSpace'. Insert a diskette and select the drive to compress. Select the 'Drive' menu and select 'Compress...'. Click 'Start'.
1) Click the 'Start' button to display the 'Start' menu.
2) Select 'Programs'. (The 'Programs' menu appears.)
3) Select 'Accessories'. (The 'Accessories' menu appears.)
4) Select 'System Tools'. (The 'System Tools' menu appears.)
5) Select 'DriveSpace'. (The 'DriveSpace' dialog box appears.)
6) Insert a diskette into the floppy drive (usually A:\).
7) Select the floppy drive to compress from the 'Drive on this computer' list.
8) Select the 'Drive' menu and select 'Compress...'. (The 'Compress a drive' dialog box appears, with estimated compression.)
9) Click 'Start'. (Compression begins and may take several minutes.)
NOTE: The final compression ratio may be different from the estimated compression ratio.
10) Click 'Close'.
NOTE: DriveSpace 3, available in Microsoft Plus!, offers major improvements over the standard version of DriveSpace that is included with Windows 95. Improvements include increased total capacity for a compressed drive of up to 2GB, selectable degrees of file compression, the option of compressing files only when free disk space falls below a certain threshold, and other features not available in earlier versions of DriveSpace.
TIP: The following procedure can also be performed in the drive 'Properties' dialog box: Select the floppy drive in the 'My Computer' window, select the 'File' menu, and select 'Properties', and then click 'Compression'.
