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How do you enable NTFS compression across all drives?
How do I enable NTFS compression for each of my drives?
Currently it is available on my C: NVMe, E: SATA SSD, and my K: HDD
but the drives I actually want to compress are not able.
K: drive able to be ...
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Windows 10 SSD maintenance/defragmentation/compression query
I have a 1TB Samsung EVO SSD as my system drive (Windows 10). I let it get almost full and paid the price - performance writing new files dropped off by a factor of something like a thousand.
I ...
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Can't enter BIOS after drive compression
So I decided to compress everything on my main drive which was a horrible idea.
Now I can't enter my BIOS anymore. I tried:
Pressing keys on startup
Running shutdown /s /fw in cmd but I get this ...
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Is "compress OS Drive" worth it on SSD?
My SSD is running out of disk space, and I see that "Compress your OS drive" is suggested as a means to save some disk space.
My questions:
I'm not sure whether there are any performance penalty ...
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Extracting (or copying) files to a compressed NTFS folder makes Windows report the disk is full when it's not
I've been trying to extract a series of compressed files - total ~50GiB (uncompressed) - to a hard disk with about 55GiB of free space.
Because this is a slow hard drive and with limited capacity, ...
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System and Compressed Memory: High Disk Usage
System and Compressed Memory is something I had for a long time
Ever since I got this new computer, when starting up my computer, System and Compressed Memory (ntoskml.exe) has been using very high ...
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