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Select all the files. Right click on and choose Properties. Click on the Advanced tab and uncheck the box next to compress.

I don't think the built-in Windows Defrag utility will compress files. However if you use disk cleanup you have the option to compress files that have not been used lately.

BTW if you search for uncompressed files in the Windows Help it has all this information.
 
Originally posted by: mikecel79
Select all the files. Right click on and choose Properties. Click on the Advanced tab and uncheck the box next to compress.

I don't think the built-in Windows Defrag utility will compress files. However if you use disk cleanup you have the option to compress files that have not been used lately.

BTW if you search for uncompressed files in the Windows Help it has all this information.



i checked but nothing is check there
 
Windows will only change the color if you set it to use a seperate color for compressed files on format. I'm not really sure what else it could be though.
 
Originally posted by: iLiKeChOwFuN
turns out files are compressed.
is there a way to uncompress everything without going through all the files?

like mikecel79 said, if you select all the files at once (CTRL+A), and right click, you will be able to uncompress the files.
 
Unless your CPU is extremely slow it shouldn't matter. Infact as long as the CPU is fast enough to decompress the files without much latency, the speed should be faster because you'll be reading from the disk less since the compressed data on disk will be smaller.

Anyway, you probably ran compact wrong, did you read it's output?. I know it works, I've used it before. Add the /A and /I switched just incase it skipped hidden files and/or stopped when it had an error decompressing a file like pagefile.sys.
 
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