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Freaky / Compactor

A user interface for Windows 10 filesystem compression
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Question/Suggestion: Use WimBootCompress.ini as default exclusion list. Allows safe compression of C:\ #60

Open Logic-Elliven opened 3 years ago

Logic-Elliven commented 3 years ago

WimBootCompress.ini or WimBootReCompress.ini found in the Windows\System32 folder are exclusion lists created during WinNTSetup installs on Wimboot mode and WinNTSetup installs on Compress mode, respectivly.

So as I understand things, using it/them as the default exclusion list should make it safe to use Compactor in the whole system disk; C: ??

More info is available in the below link of an app that enables Windows Compact all the way down to Win 7: http://reboot.pro/topic/22007-wofcompress-tool-for-win7-win10/?p=211055

ALSO: I noticed that the wimlib algorithms are said to be more performant than the Win 10 algorithms. Faster and smaller files: https://wimlib.net/compression.html#Benchmarks

I'm no programmer but thought I'd mention this in the hopes that they might be used to improve this excellent app?