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XP File and Folder Compression Guide

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Advantages and Disadvantages of each:

• Zipped folders are good for backup purposes and network transfer due to the higher compression and "single" file architecture.
• NTFS compression is good if you need to save disk space and access the files often, but overhead occurs due to the file needing to be uncompressed before access and /or moving, then recompressed. As such, it is best to not alter or copy compressed files often.
• Zipped folders must be extracted to execute / access the files.
• Moving NTFS compressed files and folders to a "non-NTFS" drive removes the compression.
• Zipped folders works with FAT32, NTFS and most extraction utilities.

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