
FreeSpace - Version 1.03 (Evaluation)

This 30-day trial version is freely available. After thirty days if you 
like the program you can purchase the shareware version from the Mijenix
Corporation (http://www.mijenix.com/).

Welcome to FreeSpace!

A. 	Introduction
B. 	FreeSpace Components
C. 	Uninstalling FreeSpace
D. 	Feedback and Support
E. 	Acknowledgment 

A. Introduction

FreeSpace is an innovative utility that lets you recover precious disk space 
without having to uninstall any program or delete files.  FreeSpace 
accomplishes this by optimizing the data stored on your disks (it 
compresses files). The interesting aspect of the program is that it lets you 
determine what should be compressed and occupy a minimum of disk 
space and what should stay the way it currently is.  Files and programs, 
which are compressed with FreeSpace, appear and work exactly the same 
as if they were not compressed.  

FreeSpace works in Windows 95/98 (including OSR2 and FAT32 
partitions) and NT 4.0 on NTFS partitions only.  FreeSpace does not 
currently support native DOS (boot into DOS).  However, DOS in 
Windows is supported.

The hardware requirements for FreeSpace are; any personal computer capable of 
running Microsoft Windows, 8MB of RAM (Windows 95/98), 16MB of RAM (Windows
NT 4.0), 3MB of free disk space.

B. FreeSpace Components

After running the FreeSpace SETUP program, you'll find shortcuts to the 
FreeSpace components in the FreeSpace 1.0 group in your Start menu.

1. The main component of FreeSpace is a driver that is loaded when 
Windows starts. This driver allows compressed files to be displayed 
and accessed as if they were not compressed.  This driver is only 
loaded in Windows 95/98. Under Windows NT 4.0, FreeSpace uses 
the native compression capabilities of the NTFS file system.

2. The FreeSpace Manager includes the QuickSpace Wizard, 
Compression Wizard, Decompression Wizard, FreeSpace Settings, 
FreeSpace Disk Checkup, and EasyUpdate.

3. The Compression Wizard helps you find files and folders on your 
system which are excellent candidates for compression either because 
they have not been accessed for a long time, or because they compress 
extremely well, or because they will save you a lot of space if 
compressed. 

4. The Decompression Wizard helps you find compressed items on your 
system and lets you uncompress them.

5. The FreeSpace Analyzer lets you analyze your drives and displays 
folder size information. It is a great tool to help you better understand 
what components are taking a lot of space on your system and to find 
out what space they would occupy if compressed.

6. FreeSpace also provides context menus (Compress and Decompress) 
which let you compress or uncompress files and folders you select in 
Explorer.  Another context menu (Folder Checkup) lets you perform a 
checkup of the current folder to verify that all the compressed items 
are in good shape (Windows95 only). Finally, you'll also find a menu 
(Convert Zip to FreeSpace) which lets you convert a Zip archive into a 
FreeSpace compressed folder.

7. The Properties dialog of files and folders has an additional tab labeled 
FreeSpace that displays statistics about the selected files and folders.

C. Uninstalling FreeSpace

If FreeSpace is incompatible with something on your system or if you wish 
to uninstall FreeSpace for some other reason, you can run the included 
Uninstall program.  You can do this from the "Add/Remove Programs" 
control panel applet or by running the "Uninstall FreeSpace" program from 
the FreeSpace group in the Start Menu.

IMPORTANT: If while using FreeSpace you have compressed some files 
or folders, you may want to uncompress them, since you will not have 
access to them without FreeSpace running.

D. Support

Please let us know if you experience any problem with FreeSpace, we will 
promptly help you.  We are also interested in the ideas you may have about 
new features or any part of the program that could be improved. Thank 
you.

Mijenix Corporation 	 	Tel : (303) 245-8000
3030 Sterling Circle 	 	Fax: (303) 245-8111
Boulder CO  80301  -  USA 	Email: support@mijenix.com
Web: http://www.mijenix.com

E. Acknowledgment

FreeSpace incorporates portions of the compression code from 
the Info-ZIP group. There are no extra charges or costs due to 
the use of this code, and the original compression sources are 
freely available from http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/ or 
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/ on the Internet.

19 August 1998
