"Compress drive to save disk space" checkbox is gone, it just indexing service. So the file folder that i copy-paste into that drive is not auto compress anymore. How to fix without reformating the drive? Is there some registry patch to fix this?

Regards

Edited February 22, 200719 yr by Mant

please help

Edited February 22, 200719 yr by Mant

You don't want to compress the drive to save space. Everything you do will require the decompression of many files which will slow your system to a crawl. Clean up your system, uninstall some programs, back up your files to CD/DVD/flash drive/external storage. The only way that option gets removed from the GUI like that is if a DLL file is modified.

If you are concerned about HDD space, then get a larger drive. A Seagate 250GB SATA2 8MB NCQ drive is $100 from NCIX.com if you live in Canada. Otherwise, get it from NewEgg.com

ok. i will reformating this partition for the last solution. but the problem is there are "documents and settings" (users profile) in this drive.

any ideas?

Edited February 22, 200719 yr by Mant

Yeah, don't listen to me. Slow your system down to molasses going uphill in wintertime.

I help people avoid and resolve slow performance, not the opposite.

ok thank you sir. now i dont want to compress, i just want to fix. so you can help me now. what is dll or registry that have been modified?

Edited February 25, 200719 yr by Mant

hello!

Just do a repair install.

repair install means format the drive

thank you very much.

repair install means format the drive

thank you very much.

Repair install does NOT mean format the drive

repair install means format the drive

thank you very much.

Repair install does NOT mean format the drive

Give'em books and give'em books and they just eat the pages!

Take the computer to a tech familiar with doing HD cleanups.

There's a few of us around.

Bring your lunch though.....it takes several hours to do it right.

finis

repair install means format the drive

thank you very much.

Right, I forgot I had no idea what I was talking about. Silly me, Trix are for kids.

OldGoat43, you're funny.