file compression, go away~

had some really bad experiences with the "file compression" option in windows... whenever my pc's gigabytes were almost up, somehow this option gets enabled unconsciously and guess what? - some of my video files (yup, only video files) goes corrupted and not recoverable~

it didn't help either when you decompress them back - try that done that...


choi byul-i: shhh...

to prevent my subconscious doing such evil things again, here's something i got from the net to disable this option once and all:

disclaimer - only works for win7

1. open registry (regedit)
2. go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\NtfsDisableCompression

*if it doesn’t exist, right-click on FileSystem and select New > DWORD Value
3. set the value data to 1
4. restart the computer (important!)
5. forget all the steps above to prevent myself reversing the effect!