xp compression does not work

[Charles V. Rennaker]

XP Help forum,

Windows XP Pro and Home both describe a process in which files and folders
can be compressed and the file color changed in the process to be able to
readily recognize a compressed file. I show this process in a graphical file
found on my website www.cvrennaker.com/images/compression.jpg this process
by procedure states that compressed in this way the file or folder will take
up less space to conserve space.

From my experience using this process is that it does not compress files as
I show in my image above. The file does change color but the byte size as
reported in windows explorer does not change. When using the XP process of
right clicking a file like a .doc file and choose from that list "send to
compressed folder" the compressed file shows up just below the uncompressed
file. In my image above a .doc file went from a 37kb file to a 7kb file, it
did not change color but it did compress.

Anyone have a reason this properties window advanced button process does not
appear to work.

 

[db ´¯`·.. >]

actually, if you continue
the search for the winxp
compression,

you will eventually find
that microsoft recommends
this feature on for 10 gig
disk drives.

otherwise, the feature
is not proficient, especially
when disks drives are now
much greater than 10 gigs.

however, it is not to say
that windows does not
utilize the compression
system.

windows is engineered to
compress old and unused
data on the system as
archives.

in any case, the color
change option can be
found under tools
folder options via
the explorer.

--

db·´¯`·...¸><)))º>
DatabaseBen, Retired Professional
- Systems Analyst
- Database Developer
- Accountancy
- Veteran of the Armed Forces

"share the nirvana" - dbZen

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

[Andrew E.]

Try run,type:CLEANMGR /SAGESET In SAGESET,edit what disk clean up
will perform when its ran,make sure the box for "compression" is checked.
Once thru,exit,return to run,type:CLEANMGR /SAGERUN