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From: Twayne on 25 Feb 2010 15:31 Select a filename in win explorer; right click it and choose Properties. Click Advanced in the File Attributes area. Notice you can set archive bit, compress the file, or encrypt the file from there. Click to Compress the file and OK/close your way out. You might have to close/open explorer once in order to update so you can see the change, but the filename will have turned to blue text as long as you haven't turned off the colored display in Options. If instead you encrypted a file, the filename would have turned green. Caveat: You can't encrypt a file that has been compressed. I don't know why but that's the rule. Also, XP-compressed files are only compressed while on the disk; they are uncompressed as they are read from the drive, before they get to memory. With encryption, the only account that can view the files there of course are the account that created the encryption. HTH, Twayne In news:ukrYJWetKHA.3904(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl, joe <joe(a)ebox.com> typed: > Does the OS do this automatically and if so under what circumstances ? > > "Tim Slattery" <Slattery_T(a)bls.gov> wrote in message > news:6eoao5h110aceg6vu58t7iv4uioro6m9m4(a)4ax.com... >> "Twayne" <nobody(a)spamcop.net> wrote: >> >>> IN XP's case, zip = compressed = zipped ... . >>> >>> A zipped file is compressed, but a compressed file is not >>> necessarily zipped >>> as there are other methods for compressing file sizes. In the case >>> of XP, with it compresses, it creates a zipped file. >> >> I don't think so. A file whose name is shown in blue has been >> compressed by the OS. This is *not* zip compression, it's something >> that the Windows OS does. It's not as drastic as zip, therefore >> doesn't take as long to do or to undo. >> >> WinXP also has built-in support for zipping and unzipping files but >> it's a totally different thing. >> >> -- >> Tim Slattery >> Slattery_T(a)bls.gov >> http://members.cox.net/slatteryt
From: Twayne on 25 Feb 2010 15:32 In news:3k0do5ps9qsr9g649jcvnri92ln7d9up2m(a)4ax.com, Tim Slattery <Slattery_T(a)bls.gov> typed: > "joe" <joe(a)ebox.com> wrote: > >> Does the OS do this automatically and if so under what circumstances >> ? > > You can tell it to compress or not compress files or directories > (Right-click|Properties|General|Advanced...). And I believe it will > automatically compress files and folders that are infrequently > accessed. No, you can only compress the files/folders in that limb of the tree that way. To get infrequently used files compressed, use the Options settings so it applies to all folders on the drive. HTH, Twayne -- -- Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
From: Unknown on 25 Feb 2010 15:57 Take a blue colored .ini file. It isn't unzipped. It is opened by Notepad. Try it. "Twayne" <nobody(a)spamcop.net> wrote in message news:Ox4G4gltKHA.4636(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > In news:uWtdfYYtKHA.3656(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl, > Unknown <unknown(a)unknown.kom> typed: >> Well said Tim. That was my belief also. > > You're in error with your belief. It's easy enough to check out; try it. > > HTH, > > Twayne > > > >> "Tim Slattery" <Slattery_T(a)bls.gov> wrote in message >> news:6eoao5h110aceg6vu58t7iv4uioro6m9m4(a)4ax.com... >>> "Twayne" <nobody(a)spamcop.net> wrote: >>> >>>> IN XP's case, zip = compressed = zipped ... . >>>> >>>> A zipped file is compressed, but a compressed file is not >>>> necessarily zipped >>>> as there are other methods for compressing file sizes. In the case >>>> of XP, with it compresses, it creates a zipped file. >>> >>> I don't think so. A file whose name is shown in blue has been >>> compressed by the OS. This is *not* zip compression, it's something >>> that the Windows OS does. It's not as drastic as zip, therefore >>> doesn't take as long to do or to undo. >>> >>> WinXP also has built-in support for zipping and unzipping files but >>> it's a totally different thing. >>> >>> -- >>> Tim Slattery >>> Slattery_T(a)bls.gov >>> http://members.cox.net/slatteryt > >
From: Unknown on 25 Feb 2010 16:08 I selected a file. The attribute compress is NOT checked. Yet the file name is in blue. I still think you are mistaken. It is not zipped but is compressed. "Twayne" <nobody(a)spamcop.net> wrote in message news:OVZuTgltKHA.5940(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > In news:6eoao5h110aceg6vu58t7iv4uioro6m9m4(a)4ax.com, > Tim Slattery <Slattery_T(a)bls.gov> typed: >> "Twayne" <nobody(a)spamcop.net> wrote: >> >>> IN XP's case, zip = compressed = zipped ... . >>> >>> A zipped file is compressed, but a compressed file is not >>> necessarily zipped as there are other methods for compressing file >>> sizes. In the case of XP, with it compresses, it creates a zipped >>> file. >> >> I don't think so. A file whose name is shown in blue has been >> compressed by the OS. This is *not* zip compression, it's something >> that the Windows OS does. It's not as drastic as zip, therefore >> doesn't take as long to do or to undo. >> >> WinXP also has built-in support for zipping and unzipping files but >> it's a totally different thing. > > If you check, you'll find the blue is zipped/compressed files and green is > encrypted files. You can set/adjust these from the Properties menu for > each file you right click Properties and choose Advanced for. > Try it and see; You'll find that: Blue *IS* zip compression for XP NTFS > drives. Compress or encrypt a file and see what color it changes to. The > color indicator can also be turned off so they all display in black is so > desired. > > In the future, please be more sure of your responses before becoming > emphatic. > > HTH, > > Twayne > > > > > -- > -- > Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered > through personal experience does not become a > part of the moral tissue.
From: Tim Slattery on 25 Feb 2010 16:09
"Unknown" <unknown(a)unknown.kom> wrote: >Take a blue colored .ini file. It isn't unzipped. It is opened by Notepad. Try to open a blue colored *.txt file in WinZip. It can't do it because it's not a zip file. -- Tim Slattery Slattery_T(a)bls.gov http://members.cox.net/slatteryt |