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            <h1>Shave ~3GB From Windows OS Drive</h1>
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          <p>This is a great trick to save a few gigabytes of space on the OS, especially if you have a smaller mSata SSD for the boot drive.</p>

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	<li>Right click the Start button &gt; Command Prompt (Admin)</li>
	<li>Run the following command to compress OS files
	<div class="codeBlock">Compact.exe /CompactOS:always</div>
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	<li>The command takes about 10 minutes to complete depending on your hard drive and will free about 3 GB of space</li>
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<h2>Reverting the Compression</h2>

<p>If for some reason you want to undo this change you can use the steps below to decompress the OS files</p>

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	<li>Right click the Start button &gt; Command Prompt (Admin)</li>
	<li>Run the following command to compress OS files
	<div class="codeBlock"><span class="codeBlock">Compact.exe /CompactOS:never</span></div>
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