Tuesday, 1 December 2009

How To Disable Compression On Xp,Disk Cleanup

On an NTFS partition, Disk Cleanup can compress old files
to save space. 
But 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 the compression: 

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

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