I've *never* used drive compression in any version of anything, except .zip and such.<BR><BR>My file server is growing at an exponential rate. I don't think I can keep it locked up the current case ...

Large files are difficult to share via email or through any other media without first compressing them. Windows makes it easy to compress large files through a zip process. Alternative services also ...

So I'm sure this isn't a new topic to the forum, and there must be others out there that have the same loathing for this "feature" of winxp. But I've tried turn this off through the system disk ...