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Windows periodically turns on compression for folders in my user profile like the documents folder. I uncompress them and then in the future compression gets turned back on for them. It may coincide with the drive running low on disk space. Is there a way to disable this behavior?

The visual indicator of this happening is all of a sudden the two blue arrows overlay starts appearing on the icons of the files and folders.

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Things to try after uncompressing the files manually first:

Disabling compression altogether by running the following in a command prompt that has been run as administrator:

fsutil behavior set disablecompression 1

Or disabling in Group Policy Editor:

Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Filesystem -> NTFS -> Set "Do not allow compression on all NTFS volumes" to "Enabled"

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