Windows 2000 Compress Old Files utility is gone

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Hello-
I have a laptop with Windows 2000 Pro loaded on it-I've noticed that when I
use the disk cleanup utility that it doesn't have 'compress old files' or
'old chkdsk files' listed on the submenu. Since I bought this laptop used,
I'm assuming that a previous owner had this option removed via the registry.
Is there a way to get these options back using the Windows 2000 CD or does
this involve tooling around in the registry? Thanks for any response.
 
"janastarr" <janastarr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello-
> I have a laptop with Windows 2000 Pro loaded on it-I've noticed that when
> I
> use the disk cleanup utility that it doesn't have 'compress old files' or
> 'old chkdsk files' listed on the submenu. Since I bought this laptop
> used,
> I'm assuming that a previous owner had this option removed via the
> registry.
> Is there a way to get these options back using the Windows 2000 CD or does
> this involve tooling around in the registry? Thanks for any response.

AFAIR, Windows 2000 never had a native compress tool.
 
Pegasus (MVP) wrote:

> "janastarr" <janastarr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:CC7F10FB-F135-413F-9D91-DE84C9BAC80D@microsoft.com...
>
>>Hello-
>>I have a laptop with Windows 2000 Pro loaded on it-I've noticed that when
>>I
>>use the disk cleanup utility that it doesn't have 'compress old files' or
>>'old chkdsk files' listed on the submenu. Since I bought this laptop
>>used,
>>I'm assuming that a previous owner had this option removed via the
>>registry.
>>Is there a way to get these options back using the Windows 2000 CD or does
>>this involve tooling around in the registry? Thanks for any response.
>
>
> AFAIR, Windows 2000 never had a native compress tool.
>
>

No it just didn't have "Zip folders", it did have NTFS compression.


The Disk Cleanup tool in Windows 2000 stops responding while it scans
old files for compression
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/886219/en-us
 
You would need to export the key from a working install, and import it.

Disk Cleanup Tool Stops Responding While Compressing Old Files
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kben-us812248

janastarr wrote:

> Hello-
> I have a laptop with Windows 2000 Pro loaded on it-I've noticed that when I
> use the disk cleanup utility that it doesn't have 'compress old files' or
> 'old chkdsk files' listed on the submenu. Since I bought this laptop used,
> I'm assuming that a previous owner had this option removed via the registry.
> Is there a way to get these options back using the Windows 2000 CD or does
> this involve tooling around in the registry? Thanks for any response.
 
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