On the hard drive with uncompressed files.
Any folder location Text Colour is blue = Compressed file or folder
Compress old files means that some files the windows system thinks you havnt accessed for a while (such as files in 'program files' or 'WINDOWS') gets compressed. this will not move the files to a 'zip' or '7zip' files. itll just be compressed in the folder it was in!!!!!!
it might increase the speed of the computer by a little. It is hardly noticable, but you would want to see what files are compressed.
Each disk of your computer has its own compressed old files, which are stored in some portion of it and which gets accumulated day by day.For deleting them from your hard disks so as to free the space, u can use the disk cleanup application.
Run the disk cleanup wizard. The wizard can be found from start menu Start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools>Disk Cleanup Run the wizard and select the drive u want to cleanup If there are compressed old files in ur system, they can be removed at the end of the wizard.
for getting rid of that obscene check box for Compressed files in Disk Cleanup Wizard:FOR WIN 2000 / XP>1. Type Regedit in Start - Run>2. Navigate to>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Volume Caches>3. Open "Compress Old Files" folder>4. Delete all files in this folder>5. Reboot>6. Run Disk Cleanup'Export' the registry entries to a file before you delete them so you can restore this functionality if you ever need to. The export is available in Regedit
Nothing. This program simply collects files and settings on your old computer and puts them on your new computer. Windows Easy Transfer is a feature of Windows Vista that allows you to transfer files and settings from one Windows computer to another. Using Windows Easy Transfer, you can transfer most of your files, programs and settings to your new computer.
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When you upgrade Windows it creates a folder called windows.old
Re installing the Windows OS without formatting the disk will keep your files safe. Only the system files will be rewirtten no change will be to the data files. But files stored in My Documents and Desktop will be lost if you are going for a clean installation. Download Recover My Files software to recover your old files after a system crash.
JAR files are basically ZIP files, so you can open them by any software that can work with ZIP files. That includes Windows XP default file-system browser, WinZip, etc. To actually run the JAR archive, you need to have JAVA runtime environment installed on your computer.
To cleanup old files on a Window's computer you can do so by going to start and searching either "Disk Cleanup" or "Disk Defragment". These will help clean up old compressed files and will clear the cache to help speed up performance without the need of downloading a sketchy program.