hmaster10 Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 Is compressing the entire windows folder using the compression option that windows provide slows down the system?Note: I'm refering to those colored blue after doing disk cleanup. (Compressed Old files) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FAT64 Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 Yes it will slow down. Everytime you access a file it will need to be de-compressed and then re-compressed when you've finished with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 Yes, never do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 I generally try to avoid using the "compress contents" feature in XP. Like Jeremy and FAT64 said, it generally slows down system performance to a noticable degree. Try to clean out temp files or get a larger hard drive to store your data on. If you have to compress something, do it on non-system files (i.e. NOT Program Files or Windows). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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