Compress Old Files?

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In Disk Clean Up is it better to check Compress Old Files?

I have 1,736,944 [mb,kb,gm,tb? Does not say what size it is just 1,736,944
with no initials]

Where do they go if compressed?

should a guy just find them somehow and delete them ?

Any ideas gratefully appreciated.

Bruce
 
Bruce;
Do NOT delete them.
They do not go anywhere when compressed, they stay in the same location but
are compressed.
The files referred to in Disk Cleanup are files that have not been used
recently which is not necessarily the same as unnecessary files.

Compressing files sometimes has problems:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=812248

I never use that feature of Disk Cleanup.
 
'Me2Ewe' wrote:
| In Disk Clean Up is it better to check Compress Old Files?
|
| I have 1,736,944 [mb,kb,gm,tb? Does not say what size it is just 1,736,944
| with no initials]
|
| Where do they go if compressed?
|
| should a guy just find them somehow and delete them ?
|
| Any ideas gratefully appreciated.

Choose 'compress' only if you think you may make a mistake, and may want to
restore the files later. If you delete instead of compress, the files are
gone.
Compressed files have the same name and are in the same folders. Compressed
files usually take up less space than uncompressed files; a compressed text
file is a lot smaller than the original - an executable file ( .exe, .dll
.....) is somewhat smaller.

I am surprised that you don't see the abbreviation KB or MB following the
file size number. How are you viewing the file size?

At any rate using 'Disk Clean Up' doesn't recover much space unless you
empty the recycle bin, and that is limited to whatever size you set, and
compression is not appropriate anyway. A few hundred MBytes isn't a very
large part of a modern disk drive storage space. I would choose to delete
what I am sure of (temporary files, for example) and leave uncompressed and
otherwise unchanged the other files offered.

Phil Weldon

| In Disk Clean Up is it better to check Compress Old Files?
|
| I have 1,736,944 [mb,kb,gm,tb? Does not say what size it is just 1,736,944
| with no initials]
|
| Where do they go if compressed?
|
| should a guy just find them somehow and delete them ?
|
| Any ideas gratefully appreciated.
|
| Bruce
|
|
 
I am viewing it from the Start menu and I click on C drive all the other
check boxes have he size but not that one
Thanks for the info
Bruce
 
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