Removing old compressed files windows xp

Forums New posts Search forums. What's new New posts Unanswered threads Latest activity. Members Current visitors. Log in Sign up. Search titles only. Search Advanced search…. New posts. Search forums. Log in. Sign up. Computer problem? Tech Support Guy is completely free -- paid for by advertisers and donations. Click here to join today! JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Thread starter nannycwa Start date Dec 3, Once the box opens you want to click on "tools" on your tool bar and then click on the "defragment now" button.

When the box opens click on the C-Drive and then click "Analyze" to check and see just how fragmented your drive is. When the results pop up, you will get an option to see the report and, depending on the results, you may not even need to run the defragment. If you do, just click defragment and let it run.

Now to run the disk clean up you want to begin by clicking on the "start" button then clicking on the "all programs" and going to accessories and choosing system tools. Reza Masoudi. Compress Old Files is a feature of the Disk Cleanup tool cleanmgr. What it does is take files that have not been accessed for a specified number of days and compress them to save disk space. This wasn't a bad idea when hard drives were small and expensive, but it's not such a good idea now.

The files that benefit most from compression are things like Microsoft Office files, and these are already compressed as standard when saved in the new Office and OpenOffice file formats. The files that take up most room -- sound, image and video files with extensions such as jpg, mp3 and avi -- are already compressed.