Compress THIS!

Occasionally I like to free up hard drive space and who better to help than Windows itself? That's why I use the Disk Cleanup tool.

Unfortunately, one of the ways that the Disk Cleanup tool likes to "free up space" is to compress all of your "old" files. This, of course, is a terrible idea.

Fortunately there's a way to disable it!

Simply delete:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\Compress old files