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.

Policy path: 

System\Filesystem\NTFS

Scope: 

Machine

Supported on: 

At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

Registry settings: 

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Policies!NtfsDisableCompression

Filename: 

FileSys.admx

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