dont know how or when but a compression was done on documents\settings and
when i done defrag it reported this to to me and also that it was unable to
defrag this section will a system restore resolve this or is it more complex,
please if there is an easy sulotion to this please give it to me as i am
really only an amature at computers
awaiting your responce
--
mar

was the whole disk compressed?

windows will compress files that
are not regularly used but these
are individual files and not the whole disk.

simply opening the files, using them
and saving them to a different location
will un do them


"mar" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1DF8802B-DC96-4A36-A7C2-(E-Mail Removed)...
> dont know how or when but a compression was done on documents\settings and
> when i done defrag it reported this to to me and also that it was unable
> to
> defrag this section will a system restore resolve this or is it more
> complex,
> please if there is an easy sulotion to this please give it to me as i am
> really only an amature at computers
> awaiting your responce
> --
> mar

Try using this command form the command prompt window:

COMPACT /U /S /A /I /F *.*

Momo

"DatabaseBen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> was the whole disk compressed?
>
> windows will compress files that
> are not regularly used but these
> are individual files and not the whole disk.
>
> simply opening the files, using them
> and saving them to a different location
> will un do them
>
>
> "mar" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:1DF8802B-DC96-4A36-A7C2-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> dont know how or when but a compression was done on documents\settings and
>> when i done defrag it reported this to to me and also that it was unable to
>> defrag this section will a system restore resolve this or is it more complex,
>> please if there is an easy sulotion to this please give it to me as i am
>> really only an amature at computers
>> awaiting your responce
>> --
>> mar
>
>

Use "*" instead of "*.*". "*.*" does not catch files or directories
that do not have an extension; CMD.EXE is not the same as COMMAND.COM
from the old DOS/Win9x/ME days.

Ô¿Ô Mws wrote:
> Try using this command form the command prompt window:
>
> COMPACT /U /S /A /I /F *.*
>
> Momo
>
> "DatabaseBen" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> was the whole disk compressed?
>>
>> windows will compress files that
>> are not regularly used but these
>> are individual files and not the whole disk.
>>
>> simply opening the files, using them
>> and saving them to a different location
>> will un do them
>>
>>
>> "mar" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:1DF8802B-DC96-4A36-A7C2-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> dont know how or when but a compression was done on
>>> documents\settings and
>>> when i done defrag it reported this to to me and also that it was
>>> unable to
>>> defrag this section will a system restore resolve this or is it more
>>> complex,
>>> please if there is an easy sulotion to this please give it to me as
>>> i am
>>> really only an amature at computers
>>> awaiting your responce
>>> --
>>> mar
>>
>>
>