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re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk'
Monday, December 8, 2003 at 8:47 am
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Posted by Warren O (1 messages posted)

- Nothing is damaged during the 'hang' on startup of the disk cleanup wizard. It just takes it a very loooooong (I guess sometimes infinite) time to decide what files you might choose to compress. - If you actually get to the point where you choose to use the 'compress old file' option, no files are deleted. They are only compressed to save space. - It is unlikely that any files would be damaged if there is a reboot (for whatever reason) during the process. I agree, though, that a chkdsk before and after would be wise. - The Windows Explorer folder options page has a setting to 'show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color', which makes any compressed file appear blue. There is also a command-line program called COMPACT.EXE that gives some quasi-useful info. With all that said, the benefits of compressing old files are not likely to be great, while the risks and/or annoyances are obvious. Disabling this feature via the registry key posted earlier is highly recommended... regards, -Warren.

On Wednesday, November 12, 2003 at 7:55 pm, ectogamit wrote:

>Is there a way to know what files are compressed?  Is there a way to uncompress 
them? 
> Please answer the below post also
>
>Thanks
>ectogamit
>
>
>>>re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk' 
>Tuesday, October 7, 2003 at 11:55 am
>Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum 
>Posted by Gene Milman   [find other messages by Gene Milman] 
>
>If I actually use the disk cleanup to delete the compressed files does this mean 
>that I have deleted the old files outright? Or is Windows just uncompressing the 
>files? That is when I check off the files to delete such as the temp files and in 
>this case compressed files do I lose that data? 
>
>






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