Why are my files compressed?

[Margaret Bartley]

When I look at my local hard drive in Explorer, I see that my personal
directory is shown with a blue font.

My understanding is that means that directory is compressed. It seems like
it. For a brand-new computer, with gigs of free space, it sure seems to be
slow opening and closing files, much slower than I am used to with my old,
slower, computer.

These are the only files I use and I use them daily. How come they are
compressed, and what do I do to get them to be normal?

Many thanks in advance.

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

My understanding is that means that directory is compressed. It seems like
it. For a brand-new computer, with gigs of free space, it sure seems to be
slow opening and closing files, much slower than I am used to with my old,
slower, computer.

You should probably turn OFF the option to compress "old" files.

It's there somewhere.

I found it by playing around with my system's settings, like... maybe
five years ago.

You should be able to do it too.

 

[Nepatsfan]

When I look at my local hard drive in Explorer, I see that my personal
directory is shown with a blue font.

My understanding is that means that directory is compressed. It seems like
it. For a brand-new computer, with gigs of free space, it sure seems to be
slow opening and closing files, much slower than I am used to with my old,
slower, computer.

These are the only files I use and I use them daily. How come they are
compressed, and what do I do to get them to be normal?

Many thanks in advance.

In Windows Explorer, right click your C drive and select Properties from the
menu.
On the General page, make sure "Compress drive to save space" is unchecked.

Next, open your C drive and right click the Documents and Settings folder.
Select Properties from the menu.
On the General page, click on the Advanced button.
Make sure "Compress contents to save disk space" is unchecked.

Do the same for your account's folder.

Good luck

Nepatsfan

 

[Harry Ohrn]

right click the folder and select Properties->Advanced button. Uncheck the
box that refers to Compress contents to save space and OK out of there.

 

[Margaret Bartley]

Thank you, that did the trick. I don't know how i would have figured this
out on my own!

 

[VanguardLH]

in message

When I look at my local hard drive in Explorer, I see that my
personal directory is shown with a blue font.

My understanding is that means that directory is compressed. It
seems like it. For a brand-new computer, with gigs of free space,
it sure seems to be slow opening and closing files, much slower than
I am used to with my old, slower, computer.

These are the only files I use and I use them daily. How come they
are compressed, and what do I do to get them to be normal?

Have you ever run the Disk Cleanup Wizard (cleanmgr.exe)? One of its
options is to compress files that haven't been used in awhile.