Saturday, February 28, 2009

How to disable compression on windows Xp, NTFS partition, Disk Cleanup from ur computer

On an NTFS partition, Disk Cleanup can compress old files to save space.

Howevere calculating the savings and performing the compression often take a long time, and on some systems, Disk Cleanup hangs during the process. If that happens, or if you don't care to wait, use this Registry tweak to disable thecompression: Delete the key

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HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\Compress Old Files.
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