PC PowerPlay 10/PCPP #10.iso/utils/clsweep/csdemo.exe/README.TXT

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Welcome to the Quarterdeck CleanSweep 95 Demonstration Edition!

Quarterdeck CleanSweep 95 saves megabytes of disk space by removing
unused or unwanted Windows programs, system components, and unused and
duplicate files -- quickly, easily, thoroughly, and above all, safely.
Our new version, CleanSweep 95, adds:

* easy-to-use wizards, to guide you smoothly through the process of
  uninstalling, archiving, and moving programs;

* installation and file usage monitors, to guarantee safer and more
  comprehensive file management (these monitors are not yet available
  in Windows NT);

* powerful File Finders that help you locate duplicate files, redundant
  .DLLs, and orphaned system components;

* intuitive tools to scrub away obsolete, unused, or unneeded files; and

* a new handsome, informative user interface.

* exclusive support for Windows NT!

This Demonstration Edition is a fully-functional version of
CleanSweep 95, with one important exception:

* The Demonstration Edition will not delete files from your hard
  drive.  You will be able to find out how much space CleanSweep 95
  can save on your hard drive, and you will be able to use some of
  CleanSweep's reporting and analysis features.

Your feedback is welcome and encouraged.  Please pass along your
comments and suggestions to Quarterdeck's online support representatives
on CompuServe at 76004,2310, or via the Internet at [e-mail].

Quarterdeck will be updating the Demonstration Edition from time to
time, so make sure that you log into CompuServe (GO WINUTIL), our World
Wide Web site (www.qdeck.com), or the Quarterdeck BBS at [phone] for
updates and product announcements.

INSTALLATION
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Installing this Demonstration Edition is easy.  Here are the steps:

1) Open the current folder (the one that contains the file you are
   reading now), and double click on the Setup icon.  Follow the on-screen
   instructions to complete the installation.

2) You may run the Quarterdeck CleanSweep 95 Demonstration Edition in
   Windows 95 by clicking on the Start Menu, then selecting Programs, and
   then choosing Quarterdeck CleanSweep 95 Demo.  There are program icons
   in this folder for the various components that make up the Demonstration
   Edition.

   If you are using Windows NT or Windows 3.1x, simply double click the
   "Quarterdeck CleanSweep 95 Demo" icon in the "Quarterdeck CleanSweep 95
   Demo" Program Manager group.

3) To remove the Demonstration Edition in Windows 95, simply select the
   "Uninstall Quarterdeck CleanSweep 95 Demo" icon from the "Quarterdeck
   CleanSweep 95 Demo" Start Menu group.  You may also use the "Add/Remove
   Programs" feature of Windows 95 by opening the Control Panel, double
   clicking the "Add/Remove Programs" icon, and then selecting "CleanSweep
   95 Demo" from the list of programs and clicking on the Remove button.

   In Windows NT or Windows 3.1x, just double-click the "Uninstall
   Quarterdeck CleanSweep 95 Demo" icon in the "Quarterdeck CleanSweep 95
   Demo" Program Manager group.

That's it!

ORDERING INFORMATION

After you've run the Demonstration Edition of CleanSweep 95, you'll want
to place your order for the FULL PRODUCT at the SPECIAL PURCHASE PRICE
OF $29.95, plus shipping and handling (and tax where applicable).

To place your order, simply call [phone] and give the special Key
Code 487.  (If you are calling from outside of North America, call
001-813-523-9700 extension 6426, or send a fax to 001-813-443-6603.)

All you have to do is CALL. Make your call today!

INFO AND TIPS
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CleanSweep and Slack Space

When CleanSweep displays the amount of disk space that will be saved by
deleting programs or files, it will often note that more disk space will
be saved than the files seem to occupy. This is a result of the scheme
that is used to store files on a disk. A physical hard drive contains
one or more "partitions". Each partition is subdivided into "clusters",
whose size is largely dependent on the size of the partition; sizes of
4K to 32K are common. Each file on your hard drive is stored in one or
more clusters. Regardless of how much of the cluster is used, the whole
cluster is allocated to the file; thus a one-byte file might take 8K of
storage space on your hard drive. A file (or the last portion of it)
rarely fills a cluster exactly; instead, it is common for many clusters
to contain "slack" space - the difference between the size of the cluster
and the amount of space that a file is using. A great deal of space may
be reclaimed from your hard drive by deleting a large number of files,
even if the files themselves are relatively small.

Stacker 4.0 and DoubleSpace 3 contain technology that dramatically reduces
the amount of slack space on your hard drive. CleanSweep's calculations may
not take Stacker's savings into account.

CleanSweep's View Option (Windows 95 and 3.x only)

CleanSweep 95 uses different file viewers for Windows 3.1x and Windows
95.  The Windows 3.1 file viewers are included with CleanSweep and
do not require any special Windows configuration.

In Windows 95, CleanSweep's View option support is limited to those
viewers supplied by Windows 95 itself. Some Windows installation options,
including floppy disk distributions of Windows 95, do not install all of
these viewers by default. When you try to view a file for which your Windows
viewer is not yet installed, CleanSweep will notify you and, at your option,
lead you through the process of installing the complete set of Windows
viewers. The following file formats are supported by the Windows 95
QuickView feature:

Ami Pro; ASCII; Bitmaps, Cursors, and Icons; CorelDraw 2.x-5.x;
Micrografx .DRW; Programs (.EXE, .DLL, and .COM); Freelance Graphics for
Windows; Microsoft Multiplan 4.x; Microsoft Word (all versions through
7.0, including DOS and Windows); Microsoft Write; Microsoft PowerPoint;
Quattro and Quattro Pro (for both DOS and Windows); Rich Text Format
(RTF); WordPad; Lotus 1-2-3 1.x-5.x (for both DOS and Windows) Lotus
Symphony 1.0; VP-Planner; Mosaic Twin; Generic WKS format; MS Works
(spreadsheets, database, and word processing for both DOS and Windows);
Windows Meta File (.WMF); Microsoft Word for Macintosh (4.x, 5.x);
WordPerfect 4.x-6.x (for both DOS and Windows); Microsoft Excel 3.x-5.x;
Microsoft Excel Charts 2.x-4.x; and Hex.

Oddly, Windows 95 provides no viewers for .ZIP and other forms of
compressed files, nor for .GIF, .TIF, or .PCX graphics files; nor for
.DBF or other database files.

There is no viewer support in Windows NT, although this is expected to be
improved by the inclusion of the QuickView feature in Windows NT 4.0.

Install Monitor (Windows 95 and Windows 3.x only)

The Install Monitor provides an "append" feature, so that you can
link and log the installation of two programs that might not be
installed at the same time. For example, you might install a database
program, and later install a program to produce specialized reports from
that database. When you monitor the installation of the reporting
program, you might like to use the Append feature so that it's easy to
uninstall both programs together if you wish. You may still use
CleanSweep's standard methods to uninstall one program at a time.

The Install Monitor is very helpful to CleanSweep's Uninstall and Move
functions.  In particular, CleanSweep requires the assistance of the
Install Monitor to correctly modify the location of files listed in
the Windows Registry.

Usage Monitor (Windows 95 and Windows 3.x only)

When you start CleanSweep, the Usage Monitor will alert you if
there are files that have been unused for the period of time you specify
in Options / Configure CleanSweep / Usage Monitor / Alert. The File
Usage Monitor icon, in the lower right corner of the screen, will also
flash if you have checked the "Alert if any file is unused for <number>
days" option.

If you change your system's internal clock to a date earlier than the
current date, CleanSweep's File Usage Monitor will not adjust its tables
of files to reflect the change.  For example, a file that is listed
as being unused for 10 days will continue to be listed as such even if
you adjust your system's date to some point 10 days in the past.
Conversely, if you switch your system clock to some point in the future,
the number of days that the file has been unused will be increased.  There
is no way to reverse this increase.

CleanSweep's File Finders

By default, CleanSweep will search local hard drives with its File
Finders. You may choose to include floppy drives, network drives, or
removable drives in the search. CD-ROM drives may also be included in
the Duplicate File Finder.

Files created during the CleanSweep session will not be displayed
in various CleanSweep Finders until you close CleanSweep and start it
again.

Orphan File Finder

According to CleanSweep, an orphan program in Windows 95 is a program
that is not on the Start menu or one of its submenus.  In Windows 3.1 or
Windows NT, an orphan program is a program that is not referenced in the
shell.

If you are using the Orphan Finder with the PC Tools 2.0 multiple desktop
feature, only the programs referenced in the currently active desktop will
be included in CleanSweep's analysis.

View Savings Report

CleanSweep's View Savings Report is intended to give a general overview
of CleanSweep's usefulness, rather than to detail every action on your
hard drive. When you delete a program or file and back it up, CleanSweep
will calculate the space saved as the amount of space taken by the
uninstalled components, minus the size of the backup, and will add this
to the Savings log. However, when you delete the backup, CleanSweep will
not add this figure to the savings log. Similarly, if you choose to
restore the component, CleanSweep will not subtract the original savings
from the savings log.  In addition, if you choose to place the backup in a
location other than the default backup folder, the size of the backup will
not be included in the savings log.

If you delete a file from a source drive and back it up to a different
target drive, the log will reflect the savings on the source, and will
not account for size of the backup on the target. (In many cases, the
target will be a floppy drive.)

Known Issues

If you are using the Norton Protected Recycle Bin along with CleanSweep,
and you encounter an error dialog from CleanSweep that reads  "Error
creating backup of the selected items.  Drive <drive letter> is possibly
full. [Error 16].", empty both the Windows Recycle Bin and the Norton
Protected Recycle Bin, close and restart CleanSweep, and retry the operation.
This is due to the way Norton Utilities protects deleted files.

If using Windows NT with an HPFS volume, you should not place CleanSweep
backups in a directory on the HPFS volume that does not conform to the 8.3
standard naming conventions of DOS (ie. CLNSWEEP.DIR).

CleanSweep's Installation Monitor may have difficulty logging the
installation of the Microsoft Plus Pack and other system-level software
that reboots the machine before the installation process is complete.  Such
software does not install itself in the same way that applications do.
We recommend extra care in uninstalling these packages.

If you are installing CleanSweep 95 on a Windows 95 system, and you are
experiencing sluggish performance from the install program, please try
emptying the Norton Protected Recycle Bin.  If that does not improve the
performance, restart Windows 95 in Safe Mode and proceed with installation.
When you are asked if you want to restart the machine, allow it to restart
normally.

Do not move long file names to a drive (file system) that does not support
long file names.

If you transport a program from a Windows 95 machine to a Windows NT
or Windows 3.1x machine, the Start Menu and Desktop components from
Windows 95 will not be added to the Windows NT or 3.1x shell.

Microsoft Office 95 users who have upgraded from Microsoft Office 4.x
will notice that some Word 6.0 objects are listed as Orphaned OLE Objects.
This is not an error.  Microsoft's upgrade program simply neglects to remove
these.  You can safely remove these orphans with CleanSweep with no ill
effects.

CorelDraw 6 users may notice that CleanSweep 95 flags the Corel
Presents Runtime Player as an Orphaned OLE Object.  This turns out to
be a issue with the manner in which Corel 6 makes registry entries, and
cannot be corrected by CleanSweep 95.

If you have a system that dual-boots between Windows 95 (or Windows NT) and
Windows 3.1, you should run the CleanSweep Install in each environment in
order to use both the 16-bit and 32-bit versions of CleanSweep.

Windows 3.1x has a limit of 8,192 items that can be displayed in a list box.
If you have more than 8,192 files that are to be listed in the Low File Usage
Finder, then only the first 8,192 files will be displayed.


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*  This file and the CleanSweep Demo Edition that accompanies it    *
*    may be distributed freely, so long as they are distributed     *
*  together in their entirety, and are not distributed for profit.  *
*             Copyright (c) 1995 Quarterdeck Corporation            *
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