Solved: was: Any way to TOTALLY disable Windows 98 Disk Cleanup tool?

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I wonder if newer versions of Windows has this same "free space"
problem?

I should mention this "Free space" problem has occurred hundreds of time
over the years, but has never once been an actual problem.



I think they'd handle it differently rather than eradicate it, as it's the
disk controller (on the drive's own hardware) that takes care of actual
storage locations. The OS just sees a range of numbers to address data, but
it has no idea exactly where and how much data until it gets a report back
from the disk controller, and suring hasty or bad shutdowns, it doesn't get
that report. If a disk cache fails to flush to disk securely and completely
at such times, you may lose the latest file(s) too).