compressed old files

[Jacob Cmap]

how and where do you find the compressed files in disk
cleanup

 

[K. Graham Clarke \(MSFT\)]

Compression is done on a partition basis; though it could be done by
compacting file(s). If the drive is compressed (bad idea since hard drives
are so cheap now); you can see that in the properties of the drive (by
right-clicking in Windows Explorer). If the file(s) are compacted, you may
find them with extension of ".zip"

To find files with a certain extension, you could do the following:
1. Press Windows key and F together (or just Start: Search)
2. Choose documents
3. type "*.<extension>" (without the quotes)...so, in this example you might
type:
"*.zip"

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[Guest]

If your partiton is FAT32, there are no 'compress old files' options (not supported with fat32). If you convert your partition to NTFS, you'll then see them.
FYI: If you get tired of cleaning up compress old files (which is more or less useless anyway), you can remove the registry key which will permanently disable it. Just run regedit and remove the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\Compress old files

Should you ever want to restore it, just export the key to a file (before deleting) so you can merge it back in later.


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how and where do you find the compressed files in disk
cleanup

 

[Alex Nichol]

how and where do you find the compressed files in disk
cleanup

If files have been compressed by that on an NTFS disk, they will be
accessible in exactly the same way, but will appear distinctively
colored (blue by default) when you look in My Computer or Explorer for
them.

 

[K. Graham Clarke [MSFT]]

Compression is done on a partition basis; though it could be done by
compacting file(s). If the drive is compressed (bad idea since hard drives
are so cheap now); you can see that in the properties of the drive (by
right-clicking in Windows Explorer). If the file(s) are compacted, you may
find them with extension of ".zip"

To find files with a certain extension, you could do the following:
1. Press Windows key and F together (or just Start: Search)
2. Choose documents
3. type "*.<extension>" (without the quotes)...so, in this example you might
type:
"*.zip"


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[Alex Nichol]

Compression is done on a partition basis; though it could be done by
compacting file(s). If the drive is compressed (bad idea since hard drives
are so cheap now); you can see that in the properties of the drive (by
right-clicking in Windows Explorer). If the file(s) are compacted, you may
find them with extension of ".zip"

This seems extraordinarily wide of the mark for a MSoft poster. True,
disk cleanup is working per drive, but the compression concerned is only
of older files (accessed longer ago than ??).

Generally in XP compression may be of complete folders (Zipfldrs) or on
an NTFS drive may be by that file system itself, at a folder or even
individual file level - and is indicated by the names concerned being
in color (blue). As for example the $NTUninstall. . .folders of files
needed to uninstall hotfixes. Control is found in the properties for a
folder