THINDISK.EXE (VERSION 1.0)              Copyright (c) 1994 Douglas Boling
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                First Published in PC Magazine March 15, 1994 (Utilities)
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THINDISK by Douglas Boling

PURPOSE:
        ThinDisk makes it easier to trim the fat from your hard disk
by deleting unneeded files. It can list all the files on your hard disk
or only those meeting certain criteria. You can search for files by name,
size, date, or file attributes. When you've found the files you're looking
for, you can use ThinDisk to copy or delete them.

SETUP:
       The first step in installing ThinDisk is to copy THINDISK.EXE to
your hard disk. It doesn't matter where you put it; it need not be in
your path. You can run ThinDisk by using the File|Run menu choice in
Windows' Program Manager, but if you think you’ll be using ThinDisk
frequently, you may want to use the File|New command to place the
ThinDisk icon into one of your Program Manager groups. You can then
launch ThinDisk by double-clicking on its icon.

REMARKS:
         ThinDisk is a Windows utility specially designed to help you
review and prune the contents of your hard disks. It makes a list of
all the files on your system, and then lets you sort them by name,
extension, size, or date. If you don’t want to view all the files at
once, you can choose to display only those files meeting certain
criteria, such as .LST files over 10,000 bytes long.

         Another way to navigate through the file list is to use
ThinDisk's search feature. You can hunt for files by name, size, date,
or file attributes.

         Once you've found the files of interest, you can use ThinDisk's
Copy and Delete functions to act on the files and trim the fat from your
hard disk.

          You can look at the files on several drives at once, but only
if there are fewer than 16,384 files. If there are more files than that
on the drives you have selected, ThinDisk will inform you of the problem
and ask you to select fewer drives.
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Douglas Boling is a Contributing Editor of PC Magazine.
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