Compression on a XP system

I am a little confused on what the correct answer would be on an exam due to the following two questions and their respective answers.

You want to reduce the amount of space used on one of your FAT32 drive fast, so you decide to compress a folder named Odata with user data such as Word and Excel docs. When you want to enable compression on the folders properties sheet you notice compression is not available. How can you compress the files with the least amount of administrative effort and still be able to read the files?

Answer(s): c. Create a new Compressed Folder and drag all the files from the Odata folder to the Compressed Folder and delete the original Odata folder
Explanation:
Windows XP contains comes with a new feature named Compressed folders. This feature allows you to create compressed folders which are actually zip files.

--Which of the following is true concerning drive compression in Windows XP Professional?

Answer(s): a. You can compress files and folders only on drives formatted with NTFS.
d. Compressed files and folders cannot be encrypted.

Don't these contradict each other? Am I mis-reading them?

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Webmaster

I am a little confused on what the correct answer would be on an exam due to the following two questions and their respective answers.

You won't get these questions on the actual exam, these are original practice questions.

Am I mis-reading them?

Looks like it, cause there's no conflict between the answers. But if you tell me what you think is contradicting, than I might be able to clear it up.

I suggest reading the following first:

www.techexams.net/technotes/xp/administration.shtml

Note that Compressed Folders (which are just ZIP files) is an entirely different feature than NTFS compression.

spudnik

The first Q is partly true but you have to use the built in compressed folders option (Zip folders) this might explain a bit
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/ff_file_compress_overview.mspx

second Q
You can only compress files/folders if the drive is NTFS (true)
you cannot encrypt if the files/folders are compressed (cannot remmeber the reason)

Webmaster

spudnik wrote:

The first Q is partly true but you have to use the built in compressed folders option (Zip folders)

Why would that make our question partly true according to you?

Correct answer: Create a new Compressed Folder and drag all the files from the Odata folder to the Compressed Folder and delete the original Odata folder

Explanation: Windows XP contains comes with a new feature named Compressed folders. This feature allows you to create compressed folders which are actually zip files.

spudnik

well suppose it is true if you were using the built in zip folders option. (If you use it)

Webmaster

if you were using the built in zip folders option. (If you use it)

Exactly my point, and that's what the answer says. "Create a new Compressed Folder" is using the built in zip folders option in MS language.