i was just wondering if Compressing disk to save space is a safe thing to do. I found the setting in properteis in my local disk C:. I thought this would help save some space on my computer but is it safe to do.
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Compress Disk to save space?
Started by Vanguard382, Sep 11 2005 02:29 PM
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Posted 11 September 2005 - 04:19 PM
it does not save u much space at all. it also slows down the comp as each time the comp wants to use the file it has to uncompress. u should only do this as a last resort
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Posted 11 September 2005 - 06:13 PM
it doesnt save much space because the compression method sucks. Microsoft should use the LZMA compression
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Posted 11 September 2005 - 10:18 PM
Compression is alright for things like "C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles" and other folders/files you'll more than likely never open. I've compressed some folders/files that I don't use that however may be needed by Windows at some time and have saved about 300MB disk space.
