How WinXP compresses the hard disk

Friends of WinXP system generally have a very low computer configuration, and the hard disk capacity is relatively small. For this reason, many friends want to compress and increase the capacity through the system tool “Disk Space Management”, which is not available in WinXP. What should I do? Don't worry, even without this feature, WinXP can compress disks and folders to increase the capacity of the hard disk. Let's take a look at the operation method.

Compression Capacity premise: must be in use under WinXP NTFS file system.

Operation method:

1. Compress the disk

Open “My computer”, view the "C drive";"property" window, in Under the "General" tab, select "compress the disk to save disk space", then click "Apply" "Provide <;Property modification confirmation" "session window, select “ Apply changes to this folder, Subfolders and files" Note that you cannot select “ apply only changes to F:”. Click “OK” to automatically pop up the “Application Properties” window and display the remaining time. The system starts to compress the disk. After the compression, we can view its properties and the available space is obviously increased.

2. Folder Compression

Open “My Computer”, find the folder you want to compress, right-click to open the folder property editing window, and select the “Advanced” label. Under the “Compress or Encrypt Attributes” task, select “Compress content to save disk space” and then click “Apply” to display the application attribute confirmation window that pops up and select “Apply to this folder, sub- Folders and files & rdquo; checkbox, then click & ldquo; OK & rdquo; Compare the space before and after the Windows folder is compressed. The space occupied before compression is 1.19GB, and after compression, it is 865MB, which means that after compression, the disk can have 325MB more available space.

Note:

1. Compression compresses disk folders, subfolders, and files, reducing disk space usage, while the total disk capacity is not increased.

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

3. Disk compression is at the expense of speed. Generally, compression is not recommended. It is really necessary to compress and compress individual unused folders or files to increase the available disk space.

Compressing the disk is not a long-term solution. Now the hard disk is also very cheap. As long as a 1TB is more than 500, if you have a spare cash, you can start one, which can reduce your troubles.