how much slower if all the files are compressed?

[Kenny]

How much slower will a computer be if I compress all the files (making them
blue)?
will there be a performance decline?

 

[Guest]

Depends on your computer, if you have a new fast one then
prolly not much, but an older one you may regret that.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

You may be able to compress all the files but whenever you read those
compressed file, into the correspond applications, then the file will be
un-compressed.

Also, I believe thjat this only works on NTFS partitions.

 

[Alex Nichol]

How much slower will a computer be if I compress all the files (making them
blue)?
will there be a performance decline?

Some, and I would advise not doing it. In particular files needed
during boot must *not* be compressed or the boot will fail. That means
the ones in the root of C (ntldr, ntdetect.com and boot.ini) and ones
that might get used in windows or windows\system32. Some of the other
*folders* there can be compressed (notably system32\dllcache and
Windows\ServicepackFiles and the $NTUninstall folders, but *not*
windows\system32config or windows\system32\drivers) but I would not
compress any of the files that are directly in either of those two main
folders

 

[Kenny]

thanks

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