On Friday, February 24, 2006 at 5:04 am, Menahse wrote:

>I deleted the key. How can I restore it and enable compress?

For what it's worth, I strongly recommend that you don't enable the Compress Old 
Files option for the following reasons:

1) If you are short of disk space, get another disk and add it as a second drive. 
They are dirt cheap (unless you are doing lots of AV editing or something like that). 
How much free disk space do you have, and how much do you want/need? (You should 
have at least 20% free space).

2) The Compress Old Files option more or less randomly compresses files. Actually 
it is according to date-last-accessed, but who is to say that because you haven't 
accessed a file recently means you won't access it tomorrow?

3) If you have redundant programs on your computer uninstall them!

4) If you have redundant documents on your computer, either archive them (copy them 
to CD or something) or just delete them if you are sure you do not want them (don't 
blame me when you lose your wedding photos).

4) There is a performance hit involved in accessing compressed files - they have 
to be uncompressed. If your computer is going slowly because it is running out of 
disk space, turning on the Compress Old Files option will not help (see item (1) 
and possibly increase your RAM).

5) If the Compress Old Files option was causing Disk Cleanup (CleanMgr.exe) to hang 
before, it probably still will, but don't take my word for that - I am working on 
a different hang (Offline Web Pages)...

Cheers,
Jann Padley
http://www.jpse.co.uk 

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