Do NOT Compress Your "C:" Drive!!!!!! Compressed drive "C", not good idea.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

OK, Bryant here goes:

Before you start on this, uncheck the Compress drive to save space box and click on Apply. Try this before moving on to the next items. If this works you won't need to go on, though I am not sure that it will uncompress anything.

1. Click on Start/Run and type CMD in the block then click OK. This will take you to a DOS Window.
2. Type cd/ {Enter}

Before you move on to the next step figure out which folders need to be uncompressed. DO NOT uncompress any of the Windows Uninstall Folders. In fact I wouldn't uncompress any of the Windows directory until you compare it with another uncompressed XP computer.

To see all the command possiblities for the following steps type COMPACT /? {enter}

3. Type COMPACT /U /S:(directory- ie. "C:\Program Files")

You will need to do this on all the main directories Except Windows that you want to uncompress.

Before I move on I wanna be sure again. First, there is no way to know which folders and files were compressed, I just ran the compress drive for a long time until i had some free space, and although you say don't uncompress the windows folders; not sure why, as it IS windows that has been slowed right down to a snail, so therefore wouldn't the compression of THESE files be causing a lot of that.
I mean other data files and large picture files (compressed) that I rarely access wouldn't have much bearing on the slowness would they.

The basic window commands are slow, opening folders, going to internet sites, etc.