Compressing?

[Venturanova1]

Im not sure wether to compress old files when running disk clean up, one of my friends told me it slowed his computer down, i was wondering if it helps to compress old files or not

[Timmybighands]

free bump for you... I was wondering myself :)

[Carnil]

Compressing old files will slow down access to those files, but will give you more space free on the disk. It won't affect the overall speed of the computer.

[Venturanova1]

well i guess ill compress the 2 gb's its been telling me too

[JDXNC]

Just don;t compress the whole drive... U will kill yourself if you do... it makes a peppy system drag like a 486 ;) I learned from my mistake :)

[Carnil]

You sure about that? Back when I had a 486, I compressed the drive with DoubleSpace to get an extra 100MB, and I didn't notice any performance hit.

[sentry]

Ive had problems in the past with doing so, with files not being able to be read or files being corrupted when accessed. But i found that the majority of "old files" were junk/obsolete so if you are using a utility such as System Mechanic or any other system cleaner tool you should be able to save some disk space by removing some of the old files (((do make backups,however)))