To Compress or Not

BobMarley! · Post by **BobMarley!** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 7:43 pm

When "Cleaning" my C:, is it best to Compress or not (in relation to gaming and what not) I'm speaking about Disk Cleanup feature in Windows. Any help is good help on this.

BobMarley

Post by **eXg. CrUsH** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:21 pm

Never ever ever ever compress your hard drive, ever!

Post by **eXg. Pun1sher** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:37 pm

eXg. CrUsH wrote:Never ever ever ever compress your hard drive, ever!

WORD. The only time you would ever CONSIDER compression is on a removable drive, archive drive, remote drive. Sure it saves you space, so for archiving, storage, it's alright, but just remember, hehe, for every ACTION there is a REACTION, ie. if you compress, then you will have to decompress. If you are THRILLED with your hard drive speeds now, wait untill it has to decompress stuff all the time. Nooooooooooooooooooo.

Good question man.

PuN

BobMarley! · Post by **BobMarley!** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 11:09 am

Thank you very much!

I was pretty sure that it would adversly affect my performance but had to hear it from the pro's! Thanks guys!

Ruiner · Post by **Ruiner** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:37 pm

defrag it though

BobMarley! · Post by **BobMarley!** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:55 pm

Now that I do often as well as Disk Cleanup and every other bug riddance that I am capable of! Thanks for the help, this one was buggin me for a while. Anyway of makes HD writes faster by bios tweeks of software mods?

I'm using an XW4100 HP
2.66HT
1 GB of PC3200
6800GTOC'd to 400-1100

oh i posted my office pic in the bios section.. check my s**t out AND my homer too!

What can I do to gain more speed? I can't unlock my bios to OC my proc. Any suggestions?

Thanks in Advance.
joe

K1LLA:4:H1RE · Post by **K1LLA:4:H1RE** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 3:13 pm

and how is this a review related topic?????

THREAD MOVED........

Post by **eXg. Pun1sher** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:00 pm

eXg. DarkStarGTX wrote:and how is this a review related topic?????

THREAD MOVED........

Hehehe, woooops. :O

PuN

Post by **eXg. CrUsH** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 7:03 pm

Defragggin is the best thing you can do, I use "diskeeper" which is the s**t. And I defrag everyday. Kinda have too when I read/write over 20-30 gigs a day.

Other than that its keeping your computer "clean" from viruses, spyware, adaware, etc.

Also you can type "msconfig" in your run box and go to the "startup" tab and decide what you want to have automatically load when windows starts, that will decrese your startuptime. Also enable "fast boot" or "quick boot" in your bios.

If you would like to be really leet you could do a Raid 0 setup, 16k stripe has been working great for me. I almost upped it to a 32k stripe, default cluster size.

There are more things you can do but I am feeling lazy...... The last thing I want to do when I come home is work on more computers! hahahaa Take care bro.

BobMarley! · Post by **BobMarley!** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:02 am

Cool beans man... my last question.. what about "Disk Indexing"

`bob

eXg. D|stance · Post by **eXg. D|stance** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 11:50 am

Turn indexing off

XvileX · Post by **XvileX** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 3:02 pm

where do you see that you can index or not? Haven't tried to tweak anything in a long while......

K1LLA:4:H1RE · Post by **K1LLA:4:H1RE** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:53 pm

If you want a good cleaning + registry cleaner for freeeeeeeeeee??

Check this sofware out...

www.ccleaner.com

if all boxes are checked/applied, you can clean 90% of your computer temp. and unwanted files...

after using the internet/firefox. I use ccleaner to get rid of all those temp files. Each night it delets 78mb - 120mb of useless pron files....

eXg. D|stance · Post by **eXg. D|stance** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:03 pm

Crap cleaneris class.
Reg supreme is quite tasty too

BobMarley! · Post by **BobMarley!** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:24 pm

Cool. I will turn it off! Thanks. I use a registry cleaner also. But was unsure of HD specifics. Man i love this clan!

joe