File compression support is one of the features of the NTFS file system that often gets overlooked by Windows users. Its main purpose is to reduce the storage requirements of files on devices that use the NTFS file system. Compression is however handled different from archivers like 7-Zip, WinZip or WinRar, as the compressed files [...]

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Compression is compression is compression. Right? Wrong. There are some compression utilities that eek out every drop of space possible. On the Linux operating system the standard is gzip or bunzip2. But if you’re looking for one of the highest compression ratios to be found you might want to turn your sites to 7-Zip.  7-Zip [...]

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How many times have you come across a .tar, .tgz, or .bz2 file in Linux and had no idea what to do with it? Or what it was? Most users of computers know what the .zip file is. Simple, it’s a compressed file. And to uncompress you generally double click it or right click and [...]

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The NTFS file system supports transparent data compression which combines the advantages of file compression without changing the visibility of the data on the computer system (data is not stored in an archive but in its original file structure on the hard drive). The option to compress files is hidden in the file and folder [...]

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Only a few file compression programs have been constantly at the top of the crowd for the last ten years and WinRAR is without doubt one of them. WinRAR has evolved in that time and is now able to not only handle rar files but also other compression formats like zip, 7z, gz, lzh, cab [...]

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Winzip 14 is a file compression software for the Windows operating system. Veteran computer users may know Winzip from back in the days as it was one of the first software programs that came with an intuitive graphical user interface. Winzip has come a long way since then which is for instance reflected by the [...]

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The NTFS file system supports file compression which basically means that it is possible to reduce the sizes of files stored on a NTFS volume to save hard drive space. The compression algorithm is Lempel-Ziv compression which is a lossless algorithm which means that no data will be lost when applied. This as a rule [...]

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Bitser adds itself to the impressive list of file compression programs for the Windows operating system. It stands out because of its interesting interface that resembles Windows Explorer and not a usual file compression program. Most file compression programs use an interface with only one panel that is displaying either the contents of a compressed [...]

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