Should You Use Windows' Full-Drive Compression to Save Space?

Did You Know? Raccoons are quite intelligent and are able to recall the solutions to tasks they’ve accomplished–like unlocking that “raccoon proof” food container you bought to keep them out of the bird seed–for up to three years. Geek Trivia Despite Their Massive Size, Which Of These Animals Only Lives A Few Years? Giant Squids → Blue Whales → Great White Sharks → Giant Tortoises → Advertisement Download Excel 2013 All-in-One for Dummies (8 Books in 1) A $22.99 Value, FREE! The featured minibooks address Excel basics, worksheet design, formulas and functions, worksheet collaboration and review, charts and graphics, data management, data analysis, and Excel and VBA. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. How to Add Tabs to Ubuntu’s Terminal How to Scan Documents to PDF with Your Android Phone's Camera Should You Use Windows’ Full-Drive Compression to Save Space? Why Do Modern Computer Cases Still Have USB 2.0 Ports? How to Unjailbreak Your iPhone or iPad Turn on macOS’ Do Not Disturb in One Click with This Shortcut Lumen Automatically Turns Up Your Mac’s Brightness While Using Dark Windows, And Vice-Verse How to Ignore Case When Using Tab Completion in the Linux Terminal How to Hide or Show App Badges on the Windows 10 Taskbar Is It Safe to Delete Everything in Windows’ Disk Cleanup? Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Two-Way Server A Two-Way Server is a type of server that utilizes multiple single-core processors or a multi-core processor for increased performance. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Hosting The Olympics Is A Terrible Investment When you crunch the numbers, and these researchers did, hosting the big games is a big financial disaster. [Five Thirty Eight] The FCC Keeps Running Into Opposition With Its Plan to Open Up Cable Boxes Six months after revealing its intentions, the FCC continues to face opposition to its plan to let you chose your own cable box. [Motherboard ] Too Much Air-Conditioning Is Warping How You Handle Heat -- Science of Us Like a caffeine addict guzzling his coffee, the more air-conditioning you have, the more you need it to feel good. [New York Magazine] Scientists finally found Zenkerella, the world's most mysterious mammal Zenkerella insignis, the critter caught on Bioko, is one of the world's most ancient and mysterious mammals--and now science has finally tracked it down. [The Washington Post] How to Add Tabs to Ubuntu’s Terminal If you work a lot in the command line, you probably keep more than one Terminal window open at once. However, instead of having separate windows, you can condense all your Terminal sessions onto one window using tabs. Read This Article → How to Scan Documents to PDF with Your Android Phone's Camera The phrase "scanning documents" used to mean spending a silly amount of time in front of a bulky machine, waiting for it to take a physical piece of paper and make it digital. But this is the mobile age, where nearly anything can be done with a phone. And scanning text-searchable documents is stupid easy with little more than your phone's camera. Read This Article → Should You Use Windows’ Full-Drive Compression to Save Space? Open a drive’s properties window, and you’ll see an option to “compress this drive to save disk space” on Windows. But how much disk space will you save, and what’s the catch? Read This Article → Why Do Modern Computer Cases Still Have USB 2.0 Ports? With USB 3.0 becoming more prevalent with each passing year now, you may have found yourself wondering why modern computers still have USB 2.0 ports built into them. With that in mind, today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to a curious reader’s question. Read This Article → How to Unjailbreak Your iPhone or iPad If you’re having seconds thoughts about jailbreaking your iOS device, here’s how to easily unjailbreak it and go back to normalcy. Read This Article → Turn on macOS’ Do Not Disturb in One Click with This Shortcut Do you seek to increase your computing efficiency? It’s always nice when you can cut down on any unnecessary clicks during the course of your day. With one simple trick, you can reduce activating Do Not Disturb by two clicks. Read This Article → Lumen Automatically Turns Up Your Mac’s Brightness While Using Dark Windows, And Vice-Verse If you do a lot of work in the Terminal, or any dark program, you might crank up the brightness to see things more clearly. The problem: when you switch to a mostly-white window, your screen is blindingly bright. Read This Article → How to Ignore Case When Using Tab Completion in the Linux Terminal The command line in Linux is case sensitive. When you use tab completion to quickly change or list directories on the command line, you must match the case of the directory names. However, there is a way to make tab completion case insensitive. Read This Article → How to Hide or Show App Badges on the Windows 10 Taskbar The Anniversary Update for Windows 10 adds badge icons for universal apps pinned to the Taskbar. While you can’t turn icon badges on and off for individual apps, you can disable all badges if you want. Read This Article → Is It Safe to Delete Everything in Windows’ Disk Cleanup? The Disk Cleanup tool included with Windows can quickly erase various system files and free up disk space. But some things–like “Windows ESD Installation Files” on Windows 10–probably shouldn’t be removed. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Ransomware Hostage Rescue Manual Being in IT I'm sure you know someone who's been hit with ransomware or you have been though it yourself. Wouldn't it be great to have a manual of what to do when you get hit and how to prevent it in the future? Now you do! Click here to download