File Compression

[R Hoggan]

In my 'C'properties box the "Compress Drive To save Disk
space" box is un-ticked, but when I run Disk clean up Win
XP Pro still compress's old file's. How can I turn File
compression off. I have a large 80gb drive and don't want
file compression as it slows things down and plays havoc
with my drive image software for backup.

Any help appreciated

Thanks

Robert

 

[David Candy]

Untick it in disk cleanup. In the C drive properties this sets the default - ie files will be uncompressed unless specifically compressed. EG dllcache is compressed so files in it inherit their compression from the folders properties. EG Windows directory inherits a default of not compressing, system32 the same, but as dllcache has compression specified , files here will default to compress. You can of course specify any file compressed or uncompressed no matter what the defaults. So clearing compression in C drives properties merely sets the default.