Serfaksan — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 04:14:58 +0000

well something that I found, I have a 160gb harddrive, when I had the windows xp sp2 pro, my freespace was 127gb, but when I changed to windows media center edition, it was still on NTSF but now I have 158 gb of freespace, and my pc works faster

steve40 — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 10:06:51 +0000

That's the way mine is setup, as a network server. I also actually operate off of a AMD server board. But what it does, is to add more file read ahead. Sort of like having the files cashed up before you get there.

Well that is what it does.

demonhale — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 04:02:35 +0000

Its a good way to save "some" amount of space that way, but to actually speed up, the easiest and cheapest method I can think of is to increase your RAM, you will see immediate difference. Also when you have more than 128, locking the page file value to a specific number would also increase your speed.

Additional tip that you can also try is to change the default "desktop PC" assignment to your properties to "server", you will actually notice things speed up... Many more if you ask me... Lol!

Roo — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 18:37:50 +0000

Yeah I did decompress. As far as the .dlls, that wasn't affected since I kept getting messages that a lot of them could not be decompressed.

My drive is big enough so I don't have to worry about that, I do see a bit of an increase in speed, not mind blowing, but some.

steve40 — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 12:12:31 +0000

Compressing files on NTSF, does not do as much good as on fat32. NTSF is going to use two sectors regardless, as long as the file is one byte over one sector. Yes NTFS does have sectors.

I have never had good results with compressing disk space, I just get a bigger drive.

Compressing files could not speed up your drive, as they have to be de-compressed to load. That could really not be any faster, than having to gather them up from the disk as usual.

My bad experience with file compression was loosing program DLL's. I would try non-compression, and see how I liked it. But you wont like the decompression routine, it takes a while ---- a long while.