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Article #45Re: XP Disk Compression
From: Philip Herlihy
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:57
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:57
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Try Treesize - a neat little utility which can tell you where the space is really going. If you're on XP or ME, removing all but the last Restore Point can release a lot of space. http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml -- #################### ## PH, London #################### "Trevor Best" <nospam@localhost.invalid> wrote in message news:4348f0e5$0$21186$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk... > Anthony R. Gold wrote: >> My notebook is running low on disk storage and, because of the disk type, >> a simple change to a larger size is not an attractive option. Would >> anyone give me their opinion on enabling drive compression? Does that >> affect speed or reliability (or anything else)? And how much space (%) >> might that add? > > No problems that I know of, I use it a lot for certain folders. The > process is easily reversable too. > > Compression wise, it depends on the files, many multimedia file types are > already compressed so no gain there.
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