Compress folders -- which method?

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Should I compress folders using:

1. XP Home's right-click/advanced/compress routine
2. send to/compressedfolder(zip)
3. regular old winzip 8.0?
 
If you ZIP it up, then the files would be stored in a ZIP archive. If you
compress it using right click>properties>advanced>compress, the files will
just be compressed (only available under NTFS). It would not be stored in a
ZIP archive.
 
Anando said:
If you ZIP it up, then the files would be stored in a ZIP archive. If you
compress it using right click>properties>advanced>compress, the files will
just be compressed (only available under NTFS). It would not be stored in a
ZIP archive.
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Just as an aside, how do you *uncompress* a large number of folder/files
under NTFS?

-B
 
Uncle Buck asked ... "how do you *uncompress* a large number of folder/files
under NTFS?"

Same way you compressed them ... select the compressed folder/files, select
Properties, General tab, Advanced and UNcheck the item reading 'Compress
contents to save disk space".
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Yabbut -- which sysstem will give me the best compression? I've got 2GIG to
compress.

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