Disable Compression On Xp, NTFS partition, Disk Cleanup

On an NTFS partition, Disk Cleanup can compress old files

to save space. But calculating the savings and performing

the compression often take a long time, and on some systems,

Disk Cleanup hangs during the process. If that happens, or if

you don’t care to wait, use this Registry tweak to disable the

compression: Delete the key :

HKEY_ LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows CurrentVersionExplorerVolumeCachesCompress Old Files.

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