Windows Compression [Windows 10 only]

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If your struggling for space or simply want to make more space continue reading..

Windows 10 comes with a utility that'll compress files/folders/sub-folders which are still usable *without any performance issues, in fact, a few reports (from what I've read) say it improves performance.

This is normally done through command line :
Visit Microsoft's documentation

There's also a GUI for this :
Here

Here's a few feedback quotes:
I saw this a few hours ago and saved 8GB on Total War Warhammer 2 with zero performance loss that I can tell.

Saved over 15GB on my Origin folder, which had Battlefield 1 and Battlefield 4 in it.

Source of information gained :
Here


Haven't really used it myself, I did compress one folder but it didn't have that much effect since the folder had little contents.


EDIT:

Here's the result in compressing Microsoft's SDK folder:


Another example (VS community 2015) :


Pretty impressive.
 
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