Re: compressing c drive

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Old files that are not used on a daily basis most certainly can be
compressed. You have a program folder, and only use that program once every
month. Would you wait another 1.3 seconds to use that program if by
compressing it you would save 192 meg out of the 400 meg in the folder?

Also, there are some programs that may even load faster when compressed. The
reason? Because your hard drive is likely the slowest component (bottle
neck) in your computer (compared to the CPU, RAM and the system bus). A
compressed file may load faster due to its smaller size. It then get to the
guts of the computer (the CPU and the RAM) which are very fast in
comparison!

YOU have to make the choice!

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Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


"Alias" <aka@[notme]maskedandanonymous.org> wrote in message
news:Obr1BZlYFHA.2076@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> So the XP's Clean Up feature to compress old files shouldn't be used? Can
> one uncompress files without doing them one at a time?
>
> Alias
>
> "Malke" <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:efUBAKlYFHA.3572@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> michael b wrote:
>>
>>> hi
>>>
>>> is this a good idea to save on disk space ?
>>>
>>> thanks !
>>>
>>> michael.
>>
>> No. It wasn't a good idea back in the Win95 days and it certainly isn't
>> now. Buy a bigger hard drive. In the meantime, here is a link to help
>> you:
>>
>> http://aumha.org/a/health.htm - Take Out the Trash (section 4)
>>
>> Malke
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>
>


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