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Using file and drive compression

Using file and drive compression

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Using file and drive compression

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- [Instructor] Compression was a popular topic in the early 1990s. Back then, file size expanded beyond what hard drives of the era could handle. One solution that became quite popular was file compression. Utilities such as Stack Electronics Stacker and Microsoft's competitor DoubleSpace were extremely popular. DoubleSpace lingers today as a file and drive compression utility that's part of Windows 10. If your drive storage is getting tight, you can consider compression as a short-term solution to the problem. Now I say short-term because the long-term solution is to get a larger hard drive, but compression works in the meantime. Before trying the compression solution, check your computer's media to see how storage capacity sets up. Press the windows and e keyboard shortcut to bring up a File Explorer window, and from the left side, choose this PC. Check the drive's capacity indicators. As these bars move right…

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