![]() Good luck to those of you that have disk compression turn on. If anyone knows if MS provides such a feature, either by command-line or through an API, then I'd love to hear about it. I would also like to know if there is a built-in command for zipping files/directories, or, if there isn't such a thing built into Windows, then I would like to know if this is feature is accessible through Visual Studio, which would be just as good as havingĪ command-line program for those of us that do a bit of programming. If you have folders or files that have blue text instead of black, then you've probably already made this mistake. When I say accessed, I mean that just looking at a file triggers the OS to decompress it in the background and present you with an uncompressed version of it then letting you change it and recompressing it again for storage every single time you access theįile, which is why your machine gets slower. If you wanted to compress files before sending them to another drive, or over a network, or by email, then Compact wouldn't actually help at all because the files have to get uncompressed whenever they're accessed, especially before sending them anywhere. Turning this off has to be done by booting into the recovery console, if my memory serves me correctly, and it's a real nuisance. ![]() Use this command is when they're removing disk compression because someone turned it on to save space. Very bad! It makes your computer very slow and is quite difficult to undo. Supported formats: - Packing / unpacking: 7z, xz, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR. 7za.exe features: - High compression ratio in 7z format. 7za.exe is a standalone console version of 7-Zip with reduced formats support. It enables disk compression which is a total no-no. 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. ![]() There are additional concerns with the Compact command. I fully agree that Compact is not the answer.
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