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i have some kind of file compression problem i need help with

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soulm4tter

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Somebody has messed with my computer and i don't know who or what they did. Its some sort of compression. When i view the properties of any file it lists 2 different sizes. Size and Size on Disk are both listes and my computer is acting funny. How can i fix this?

 
Are you using Win2k? That's normal. Even if the files aren't compressed you will see the size the file takes up on disk. In Windows, files are stored in such a way that little portions of the disk are used to contain fragments of the file. Each of these small portions of the disk can only contain one file fragment. If the file fragment is really small it will not fill up the portion of the disk and so even though the file might be 1 byte, it might take up 4 kilobytes on the disk.

This is why Windows reports the actual size of the file and the amount of space it takes up on the disk.

You can check if you have Win2k file compression on by right clicking on the folders that you think are affected. Click 'Advanced' and then see if the two options in the bottom of the window regarding encryption and compression are checked. If they are, uncheck them.

-GL
 
I'm using WinMe. i found a file that was created yesterday which is when this happened, its called drvspace.gid I'm getting script errors when i try to view alot of files and i can't access msinfo32 for some reason........i want to run system file checker.

I tried to install the windows disk compression utility, but i got some errors and it wouldnt' intall. Scandisk reports that the disk size is being reported wrong.

 
drvspace is an older Microsoft compression tool that was used in DOS when hard drives were small. No wonder you are having trouble. Did you actually use drvspace to compress some files? Or was it just installed? I wish I could tell you how to fix your problem, but nothing occurs to me right now. Good luck
 
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