Monday, November 3, 2008

Skip "Compress Old Files" when doing Disk Cleanup

When running Disk Cleanup on Windows 2000 or XP workstations, there is always a long pause for checking how much space will be saved when compression is enabled. As hard disk become so cheap, there is hardy a reason to use Windows XP’s compress and the bigger the disk you have the longer it takes to scan. Here is a windows registry trick that skips the compress check:

http://kb.ucla.edu/articles/automatically-skip-compress-old-files-when-doing-disk-cleanup-in-2000-or-xp

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