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Undo "compress old files" in Disk Cleanup utility?
"Hackworth" wrote in message
... I guess this is sort of on topic because it involves a new hard disk for a home-built computer. I'm using Windows XP Home SP1. I recently used the Disk Cleanup utility in System Tools, and in addition to most of the other checkboxes that are selected by default, I went ahead and checked the "Compress old files" option just to see what it would do. (That's the way I am.) I thought that it *deleted* "compressed old files" but I see now that it actually *compresses* old files! sigh Anyhow, when I saw what it was doing, I stopped the process. It was taking too long and I wasn't sure what effect having a bunch of compressed files on my hard disk would have on performance (because presumably Windows would have to decompress them every time some program needed to access them). Everything was working fine until I purchased a new hard disk and tried to use the latest version of PowerQuest's DriveCopy. It would stop with "too many files errors." After a few minutes of tinkering, I discovered that I could turn off file checking and let DriveCopy do its thing, disregarding everything it thinks is a "file error." The story has a happy ending and everything works fine now--I love the quiet new WD drive with its 8 MB cache!--but I'd like to undo the compressed file thing to prevent future problems. Does anyone know how I would go about doing that? Have you tried right-clicking on the file properties advanced uncheck compressed ok apply? This works for files and folders that you have compressed yourself and I suspect that it will work for your purpose (programmers don't voluntarily waste their work by doing the same job twice despite total idiot managers). -- John McGaw [Knoxville, TN, USA] Return address will not work. Please reply in group or through my website: http://johnmcgaw.com |
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