Anybody uses this little windows XP option?

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mattbiernat · #1 Post by **mattbiernat** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:35 am

Compress drive to save disk space

i saved few GBs like this. it doesn't seem to slow down file acess either... i love experimenting with XP.

Puppy · #2 Post by **Puppy** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:07 am

I use NTFS compression for some files only. But I don't have problems with disk space, rather with disk speed

dsigma6 · #3 Post by **dsigma6** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:48 pm

You don't notice any difference? Are you opening any large files/programs?

mattbiernat · #4 Post by **mattbiernat** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 1:32 pm

not really. all im doing is ms word, surf the net, listen to music and a little bit of gaming. the games i tried were EE and Civilization 4. both work the same before and after compresion.

Turbo Audi · #5 Post by **Turbo Audi** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:49 pm

I often use it. One time if freed up over a gig.

wearetheborg · #6 Post by **wearetheborg** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 5:42 pm

Hmmm interesting. I wonder if it will make a difference in speed at all, or perhaps even make it faster.
Decompression will be done by cpu which is orders of magnitude faster than HDD access. And since files are compressed, less bytes need to be fetched from the HDD, so it might even make it faster.

Anybody uses this little windows XP option?

Anybody uses this little windows XP option?

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