Policy

Do not allow compression on all NTFS volumes

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

Policy
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category System / Filesystem / NTFS
Policy ID 6043dd5fbbde
Internal name DisableCompression

Registry

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HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Policies\NtfsDisableCompression (enabled) = 1
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Policies\NtfsDisableCompression (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

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

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