Downside of Compression

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W.G.D.

Is there a downside when compressing a drive, "C" in this case?

In my case "C" contains Windows only and all accompanying files/folders. No
applications or data.

What, exactly, is compressing doing?

Wayne
 
W.G.D. said:
Is there a downside when compressing a drive, "C" in this case?

In my case "C" contains Windows only and all accompanying files/folders. No
applications or data.

What, exactly, is compressing doing?

Wayne
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You should never compress a drive. In the very olden days of computing
when drives were tiny, people would occasionally compress their drive to
try and squeeze a bit more space out of it. In this day and age with a
40GB drive considered very small, you would just buy a bigger drive if
you need it.

If you are talking about the file (not drive) compression that XP does
(because you're seeing some of your files colored blue), here's an
article explaining that:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...en-us/ff_file_compress_overview.mspx?mfr=true


Malke
 
Malke

If one type the word DriveSpace out enough times, it is said that one can
recover from the trauma of ever having come across the utility.. :)
 
Mike said:
Malke

If one type the word DriveSpace out enough times, it is said that one
can recover from the trauma of ever having come across the utility.. :)
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Ooh, you made me twitch in a painful way! ;-)


Malke
 
Mike said:
Malke

If one type the word DriveSpace out enough times, it is said that one
can recover from the trauma of ever having come across the utility..
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Back in my college days, because of some error I made, I was once required
to write a particular German sentence over and over again umpteen times.
It's now 50 years later, and I've forgotten most of the German I learned,
but I still remember that sentence.
 
Problem here is that when I partitioned the main drive, I did not allow for
enough space in "C". About 9.8g in size, with applications and data
elsewhere (D & E), "C" now has about 1/2G left. Some applic are stored
in"C" regardless - no means at install to move elsewhere and I do not know
how to move them elsewhere if possible.

I have "tons" of drive - just mispartitioned.

Wayne

BTW, does it make real sense today to partition a drive? I leave big chunks
for video conversion work I do (VHS->DVD for example).
 
W.G.D. said:
Problem here is that when I partitioned the main drive, I did not
allow for enough space in "C". About 9.8g in size, with
applications and data elsewhere (D & E), "C" now has about 1/2G left.
Some applic are stored in"C" regardless - no means at install to move
elsewhere and I do not know how to move them elsewhere if possible.
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You can't move applications, but you can uninstall them and then reinstall
on another drive.

You can also resize your partitions. Unfortunately, no version of Windows or
DOS has ever had the ability to change the partition structure of a drive
without losing all the data on it. To do so requires the use of a
third-party program. Partition Magic is the best-known such program, but
there are shareware/freeware alternatives. One such program is BootIt Next
Generation. It's shareware, but comes with a free 30-day trial, so you
should be able to do what you want within that 30 days. I haven't used it
myself (because I've never needed to use *any* such program), but it comes
highly recommended by several other MVPs here.
 
W.G. D.

Compressing Windows Update Uninstall folders have no downside. There
are not regularly accessed. They are only there to enable you to
uninstall an Update if needs must.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Ken

W.G.D. does not say so but this almost certainly about the Windows XP
uninstall updates folders. This is a follow up on an earlier thread
ended on 17 January 2007.


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Regards.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
Gerry:

I increased the size of 'C' substantially by doing as stated - compressed
the Uninstall folders. Meanwhile, later today, pls look at other thread
about SP2. I should have more info, follow-up to earlier comments..

Wayne
 
Ken

I had the same experience and, like you, have forgotten most German.. the
phrase I was asked to write was

'Ich bin ein dumkopf'

... and no, I never forgot it.. :)
 
It is indeed.. that was the second lot of 100 lines I had to write out for
misspelling the first 100.. :)
 
... then you will also remember attempting decompression with only 50mb free
space left?
 
How does one compress all those memories into one lifetime of
experience given that we are all so young and innocent!


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Regards.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
Some things stay forever.. like the first time you throw gasoline onto a
yard fire.. :)
 
Not if you clean out the empty gasoline can afterwards with a lighted
cigarette in your mouth!


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Regards.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
Bit the bullet! During a defrag of "C", the machine went dead. Dead.
DEAD. Decided it was not worth diagnosis. Red light (at pwr sw). No fans
(no control by pwr pushbutton) - machine is 7+ yrs; ME to XP. W/Vista
around the corner, box houses are selling 2yr old 1Gb, 250Gb, DualCore
machines at prices compet to Internet. I went for one w/XP-Media. No
SATA - thus moved old IDE drive to new machine. Data (a lot of it!) fine of
course.

BTW, for a non-game player (just lots of office stuff, CAD and Adobe
Photoshop), would I see a (slight) difference in a Dual-core AMD machine
increasing from 1Gb to 2Gb? Read someplace if I migrate to Vista-Prem,
will definitely need 2Gb. True?

Thanks for all the replies regarding compression!

Wayne
Sarasota, FL
 
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