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Roundup of compression software
Lifehacker.com has a roundup of its readers favourite compression software. It might seem odd to install a program for something Windows already does but they are worth investigating.
Firstly Windows file compression doesn't support all compression formats and every so often I have to try and access a RAR file. Normally prompting a forced search of the web.
My personal favourite from the list is 7-Zip. It's cross platform so it's one less thing to adjust to when switching between Windows and Linux. There's a portable version too, ideal for those of us who live off a USB key. Oh, and it's open source, so no price tag (unless you want to donate of course)
This is hardly a roundup. More like opinion that doesn't even try any real number of the software out there.
Not worth posting. Lifehacker's post at least is comprehensive.
And it makes perfect sense to use a better compression program than Windows', when you have over 1000 GB of data to compress:
1% better compression means 10GB less to burn to DVDs, saving 3 DVDs right there.
posted-by Balrog | December 3, 2008 2:16 AM