I'd buy a pen drive and offload some of the stuff you're not using rather than compress it.
________________________________ From: Kurt Wendt <kurtwe...@waitex.com> To: profox@leafe.com Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 3:25 PM Subject: [NF] HD Space Issues... Hey there folks - looking to reach out to the techies here... This machine I have at home - where I do a lot of my main 3D computer graphics work - I am running WinXP Pro-64. On one of the drives (although it may be more specific to say it's a partition on there - it was a While ago when I first built the workstation) is running low on space - and it's the Boot partition I went into Properties & then Disk Tools - to try and get some space back. Under the Disk Cleanup - its gives an option to "Compress Old Files" - and its showing a pretty big number. I'm assuming that its old files that it knows I have not Touched in quite a while. Am I assuming correctly? And, if it compresses them - does that mean if I try to use the files - it will decompress them on the Fly? Also - in the Properties window - there is another check box to "Compress drive to save disk space". Should I try using that??? In the past - I never ran EITHER of these options. I assumed that when I do - it compresses files - then decompresses them on the fly when one tries to access the files. However, I always try to operate that PC at top speed - since I am doing graphics work on it - and graphics processing always takes a lot of horsepower. As such - I never trusted using EITHER of those options. But, now I want to take a shot at maybe using ONE or Both of those options - if they actually work Well to save disk space WITHOUT taking a Big Hit in processing/disk access speeds! Any thoughts??? Thanks, -K- Senior Developer Waitex Information System, Inc. P Save a tree. Don't print this e-mail unless it's really necessary. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/289ea162f5642645b5cf64d624c66a140e260...@us-ny-mail-002.waitex.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1336642975.38399.yahoomail...@web125606.mail.ne1.yahoo.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
