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Compressing files and folders to save space

Windows XP includes a built in compression utility which can save you some valuable space on your hard disk by archiving little used files.

Working similarly to compression programs such as PKZIP and WINRAR, the built in software reduces the space your files take up on the disk

However, at the penalty of increased disk access time for the compressed files in question. ( In other words it slows access down )

There are several ways of compressing data on your system:

If you have a pre‐existing folder and would like to compress everything in it, right click on the folder, select ʹPropertiesʹ then the ʹAdvancedʹ button at the bottom. In the ʹCompress Or Encrypt Attributesʹ section, check the ʹCompress Contents To Save Disk Spaceʹ option.

If you wish to create a compressed folder for a file or folder separate from the one it is in now, right click on the item you wish to compress and choose ʹsend to\compressed (zipped) folder.ʹ

This will create a new compressed folder in the same location as the original file or folder