If you have some files and programs on Windows that you don’t use frequently, you can enable compression on these files and save the disk space. Reading a large compressed file requires more time and consumes processing power too. When you re access the file, then Windows first decompress the data before you access the file.Ĭompressing and decompression consume hardware resources, thus if you open a compressed file, then first it is decompressed, then you can read. The Data Compression algorithm encodes the information of the file in fewer bits this reduces the number of bits in a file, thereby reduces the file size too. If you enable the compression on a file, Windows compress that file using a data compression algorithm, this reduces the file size, thereby filing less space on the disk. Windows allows you to compress files and folders with a one-click so that hard disk could be free somewhat.
If the Hard Disk doesn’t have a lot of space left, you can compress os drive to save disk space, NTFS drive, files, and folders to save the disk space.
