Need help with decompressing c drive

I was running disk cleaner on w10 and checked compress your os drive accidently. I tried decompress through c drive property option but everytime when trying to decompress i get error saying c:/swapfiles.sys is being used by another process. Ive tried restarting pc but same thing.


How can i fix this? is there also a way of doing it with command prompt? I can go into c drive and right click property and manually decompress them but i dont think this method is efficient or gets all the folders including hidden ones.

Probably need to do it in safe mode, or from a WINPE environment such as Kyhi's recovery tools:
Windows 10 Recovery Tools - Bootable Rescue Disk - Windows 10 Forums

nah
i figured it out after couple hours through google.

winkawak said:

nah
i figured it out after couple hours through google.

Could you share you solution? It might help others in the future.

steps to decompress c drive using command prompt
-run cmd as admin
-type cd\
-type compact /s /u /i

incase anyone wondering
-s for all sub directories
-u for uncompress
-i for ignoring errors and files that denies access to proceed anyway

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