2006-07-11 23:12:57 · 5 answers · asked by TC191746 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Compression is a thing of the past.
With hard drives selling at less than $.50 per gigabyte, it hardly makes sense to compress your hard drive to free up space. Instead, buy yourself another hard drive.
Realize too, that compression hurts access time. So opening files and programs could take a bit longer, even on a fast system.
2006-07-11 23:22:05 · answer #1 · answered by SirCharles 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question is unclear. Are you talking about DEfragmentation?... as in defragmenting a hard drive? If so, do a disk clean-up first, (is that what you mean by compression)? Once that's done, do the defrag.
2006-07-12 06:17:24 · answer #2 · answered by fiveamrunner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is actually best to do it in this order, because the files will be ordered as efficiently as possible prior to compression.
2006-07-12 06:16:41 · answer #3 · answered by the_dt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure
although i wouldn't compress unless you are really desperate for disk space it is going to slow down your PC
2006-07-12 06:15:49 · answer #4 · answered by Preykill 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure.... and I hope you mean DEfragmentation
2006-07-12 06:16:02 · answer #5 · answered by billyboy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋