Saturday, September 30, 2017

windows 10 - Why does compact.exe suddenly start to compress my disk?

I've used Windows 10 since the launch, but the File Compress Utility process(compact.exe) suddenly started to compress my hard disk a few days ago. I didn't touch any settings on the system. Why is this happening at all? It's not just the operating system files, but several folders in my home are compressed, including Desktop, AppData, and .android. Is there a way to know which files are affected so that I can uncompress them?


I enabled Do not allow compression on all NTFS volumes, and also ran compact.exe /CompactOS:never, and the compressing somehow stopped, but it's running again now. Running compact.exe /CompactOS:Query reports it's in the compact state.

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