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In article <downs.63.727498434@helios.nevada.edu> downs@helios.nevada.edu (Lamont Downs) writes:
>>Does anyone have any advice or info regarding the hard disk compression
>>programs - Stacker and/or Superstor? 
>>
>>Has anyone experienced any bad side effects caused by the installation
>>of either program. I have heard and suspect that the PC's is slowed 
>>because of the constant decompressing and compressing.
>>
>>Does Windows work happily with them?
>
>I've used Stacker 2.0 & 3.0 for about a year & have had no problems. If 
>anything, it _speeded up_ disk access since there's less for the disk to 
>read (course having a fast processer helps). I keep windows in an unstacked 
>part of the disk but all my Windows apps are in stacked drives & I've had no 
>problems. 3.0 even has controls available in Windows, though it actually 
>drops out of Windows to defragment, etc.
>
>My own recommendation if you get Stacker, though--don't select the "stack 
>entire disk" option. This stacks almost all of your drive & calls it C:, 
>leaving the tiny unstacked remainder as D:. This necessitates some (to me) 
>bizarre shenanigans involving keeping duplicate config.sys & autoexec.bat 
>files, swapping them back & forth if you edit them, etc. I just cleared off 
>most of my hard disk & told it to stack the empty space, creating a new 
>drive & leaving C: alone. Haven't had any problems.
>
>Lamont Downs
>downs@helios.nevada.edu

He's telling the truth here.. If you dont leave part of c drive unstacked.. you might run into some problems.. I had a buddy who stacked the whooe drive and couldnt do anything to it, because he had corrupted it..

-worm