Using compression software such as WinZip or WinRAR shrinks files so they take up less space. This makes zip and rar files ideal for sharing over email or by USB drive. However, some types of files, ...

The RAR format optionally splits large files into several compressed parts. This multi-part format makes distributing large business files to or from customers or among colleagues easier, because if ...

If you need to send a set of files to another user via email or attach a link to a cloud drive, you might have to compress the folder containing files to send it. This is to save internet data, time, ...

We often work with compressed file formats, but are not always sure how they work and which format is better. By default, we mostly use an archive file format like ZIP or RAR. These formats squeeze ...

I have quite a few >700MB files that I am RAR'ing in order to break them up into nicely compressed 700MB file chuncks.<BR><BR>On my DC (Win2k AS, eval) box, I'm running around 11 compression sessions ...

File Explorer has long offered the ability to create and open ZIP files, and more recently, Windows 11 version 24H2 also added support for other archive file formats, such as as RAR and 7Z. but while ...