Safe to Compress for Space?

[John R]

With XP Home Edition can all files on the c: drive be compressed with
safety? If not which ones should not be compressed?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP}]

Compressing files on your hard drive will result in slower performance
since they must be decompressed when accessed. It is not recommended
to compress your hard drive.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User

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With XP Home Edition can all files on the c: drive be compressed with
safety? If not which ones should not be compressed?

 

[John R]

So, is it possible to decompress?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP}]

How To Use File Compression in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307987/en-us

 

[Malke]

So, is it possible to decompress?

Compressing files on your hard drive will result in slower performance
since they must be decompressed when accessed. It is not recommended
to compress your hard drive.
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With XP Home Edition can all files on the c: drive be compressed with
safety? If not which ones should not be compressed?

The answer to the question you first asked is "no". It is not safe to
compress your hard drive. Hard drive compression was done with drive
compression utilities in the very early days of computers because hard
drives were so small and so expensive. It didn't work well then and it
would work even worse now. The probability of corrupting your data is
extremely high.

If you need more space, the solution is to replace your drive with a
bigger one.

Malke

 

[Bob I]

r-click top directories, then pick properties, advanced, and "uncheck"
Compress, and apply.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

John

A dissenting voice. Compress files and folders that are rarelym if
ever, accessed e. g. backup and uninstall files and folders. Do not
compress those being regularly accessed.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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So, is it possible to decompress?

Compressing files on your hard drive will result in slower
performance since they must be decompressed when accessed. It is
not recommended to compress your hard drive.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User

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With XP Home Edition can all files on the c: drive be compressed
with
safety? If not which ones should not be compressed?