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Do not allow compression on all NTFS volumes

Supported on: At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

Registry

HKLM System\CurrentControlSet\Policies

Value name: NtfsDisableCompression

Enabled: NtfsDisableCompression = 1

Disabled: NtfsDisableCompression = 0

Description

Compression can add to the processing overhead of filesystem operations. Enabling this setting will prevent access to and creation of compressed files. A reboot is required for this setting to take effect