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Does compressing files in XP slow things down?

Does compressing files in XP slow things down?

I frequently run the Disk Cleanup tool and let it compress old files. However, one of the directories it compressed, full of small icon images, is terribly slow. Is this a result of the compression or something else? (Note: No other directories are slow at this point, but I also haven't come across any other directories that were compressed this much by XP)

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Guest [Entry]

It seems as though disabling the Windows Image Acquisition service helped greatly. Not sure why it affects performance on directories with a large number of images. This seems to work well, since my machine doesn't need this service.
Guest [Entry]

It seems as though disabling the Windows Image Acquisition service helped greatly. Not sure why it affects performance on directories with a large number of images. This seems to work well, since my machine doesn't need this service.