Saving Disk Space

I'm a very new computer user & I kinda experiment around, clicking
buttons & stuff. A lot of times I run into the option of "compress
drives to save disk space". Should I always check this option? What
are the pros & cons of doing so?

Thanks!

BMW

Do not use "Compress Drives to Save Disk Space". If you do,
you'll find that your computer will take a performance hit.

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Nicholas

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"bmw" wrote in message: =20
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| I'm a very new computer user & I kinda experiment around, clicking
| buttons & stuff. A lot of times I run into the option of "compress
| drives to save disk space". Should I always check this option? What
| are the pros & cons of doing so?
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| Thanks!
|=20
| BMW

It's really debatable. If you have a bunch of plain data files you keep
around but hardly ever use, then the overhead in access time isn't much of a
hindrance.

"Nicholas" wrote in message
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Do not use "Compress Drives to Save Disk Space". If you do,
you'll find that your computer will take a performance hit.

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Nicholas

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"bmw" wrote in message:
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| I'm a very new computer user & I kinda experiment around, clicking
| buttons & stuff. A lot of times I run into the option of "compress
| drives to save disk space". Should I always check this option? What
| are the pros & cons of doing so?
|
| Thanks!
|
| BMW

Have a look at this disk usage analysis tool. It is for analyzing occupied disk space.

http://directorysize.moleskinsoft.com/