Does Windows compression give the option of excluding certain filetypes

[vfclists]

Does enabling compression on a disk give the option of excluding
certain file types, like zips and mpegs which are already compressed?

 

[Bookman]

Are you asking if you compress an ENTIRE drive, can you exclude certain file
types? To the best of my knowledge, you can't set exclusions with NTFS
compression.
I would strongly recommend not compressing an entire drive, as it could
affect the performance of any applications on that drive.

 

[Bob I]

Nope.

 

[Tim Meddick]

I agree with 'Bookman'. I would add though, it doesn't affect already
compressed files such as the ones you mention. Windows realizes that they
cannot be compressed further and just sets the 'compressed' attribute on
them so they become 'marked' as compressed. It does not change them in any
other way so it is both safe and pointless to compress files that already
use compression techniques.