How the XP system compresses the hard disk to increase capacity

How the XP system compresses the hard disk to increase capacity

Compression Augmentation Prerequisite: Must be under WinXP using the NTFS file system.

Action method:

1. Compressed disk

Open My Computer and view the Properties window for the C disk. Under the General tab, select Compress disk to conserve disk space, and then click Apply to eject the property Modification Confirmation Session window and select Apply changes to this folder, subfolders, and files note You cannot select Apply changes only to F:. Click OK to automatically eject the "Apply Properties" Progress window and display the remaining time, the system began to compress the disk, after compression we can view its properties, the available space significantly increased.

2. Folder compression

Open My Computer, locate the folder you want to compress, right-click to open the folder Properties edit window, and select the Advanced tab. Under the Compress or Encrypt properties task, select Compress content to conserve disk space, then click Apply, and in the pop-up Application Properties Confirmation window, select the Apply to this folder, subfolders, and Files check box, and then click OK. Compare Windows folder compression before and after space. Before compression space is: 1.19GB, compressed 865MB, means that after compression, the disk can be more than 325MB available space.

Attention:

1. Compression is the compression of disk folders, subfolders, and files to reduce disk space consumption, while the total capacity of the disk is not increased.

2. Disk compression only compresses local disks and their folders and files, and cannot compress mobile disks and folders.

3. Disk compression is at the expense of speed, generally do not recommend compression, you do need to compress individual infrequently used folders or files can be compressed to "increase" available disk space.

After all, the disk compression is not a long-term solution, and now the hard drive is also very cheap, a 1TB as long as 500, if you have spare money friends can start a, so you can reduce a lot of trouble.