Havent used ME in a few years forgot it doesnt have disc compression with it. Tried to find some of the old compression utilities and cant find anything, anyone know of any disc compression utility downloads?

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Why would you want to use disc compression? It only slows things down.

The cost of hard drives today is minimal. You are better of buying a larger hard 
drive.

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As per the original answer, back when Win95 and Win98 were relatively new, storage was very expensive, so even MS-DOS had its own compression function. Stacker was the best known and most reliable of the aftermarket programs.

WinME was pretty terrible in its day, and was never hugely popular. If it didn't have disk compression (with a "K", since it's not related to optical drives), it was because the cost of storage had already begun dropping. It does seem to me that W2K had such a function, however.

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On Friday, February 22, 2008 at 9:02 pm, mntmanmaps wrote:
>Haven't used ME in a few years

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Another reason was that it was a terrible concept, that failed catastrophically on 
a frequent basis. One bad file killed every file in the single compressed file.







On Saturday, February 23, 2008 at 3:55 pm, Kiwi wrote:

>As per the original answer, back when Win95 and Win98 were relatively new, storage 

>was very expensive, so even MS-DOS had its own compression function.  Stacker was 

>the best known and most reliable of the aftermarket programs.

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>WinME was pretty terrible in its day, and was never hugely popular.  If it didn't 

>have disk compression (with a "K", since it's not related to optical drives), it 

>was because the cost of storage had already begun dropping. It does seem to me that 

>W2K had such a function, however.  

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>Kiwi

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