i am wondering what is the advantage or disadvantage of ....?

Question

compressing my "C" drive to save disk space or should I maintain the setting of allow indexing service to index this disk for fast file searching....My "preloaded "C" drive is a file system is NTFS. I have removed all programs and misc bs from this drive that I don't need/use to recover space ( got to love teenagers and linewire/myspace im and other bs programs....). but I don't know if I compress my "C" drive, if it will do any good, or will it increase my overall drive...... I clean up my hard-drive daily, and defrag both my bootdrive and visable(if thats what this is) daily along with my usualy spyware and antiviral stuff, so I do take care of my system, and eventually do need to upgrade my hard-drive, but right now, cant, so need a tip or too to free up space.......oh btw, I have gone into my "C" drive and gotten rid of all the useless documents and saved them onto a disk for later use if needed..... any help?

thanks a mil all!!!!!

i am running a lenova 3000 bc200 notebook mid range, that is upgradable, and will be once my daughter is ready to go to college in the fall.... so mamma can get an new, faster, bigger, badder one!!!!!

Answer 1

Sounds like you're doing everything you can. The disadvantage of compressing the files on the C drive is that it takes longer to open the files. That's because you have to uncompress the files before using them.