Ever use WINZIP?

[Robot Chicken]

I just heard about KGB Archiver:

About KGB Archiver

KGB Archiver is the compression tool with an unbelievably high compression rate. It surpasses even such efficient compression tools like 7Zip and UHARC in terms of the abilities. Unfortunately although it has a powerful compression rate, it has high hardware requirements (Recommended: a 1,5GHz processor and 256MB of RAM as an essential minimum). One of the advantages of KGB Archiver is also AES-256 encryption which is used to encrypt the archives. This is one of the strongest encryptions known to humans. The extraction time depends entirely on your hardware and setting of priority for extraction. Average time extracting the files on a p4 3.2GHz system with 1 gig of ram is about 2.47 hrs (Priority = Above normal)

Size after compression: 1.47 Mb
Size before compression: 450.157 Mb"

Gordon Bennett!

 

[Biscuit]

WOW I can't wait to give a shit!

Geek SPUNK.

 

[Robot Chicken]

WOW I can't wait to give a shit!

Geek SPUNK.

Think how much PORN you could fit on a CD

 

[Safeway]

 

[Robot Chicken]

 

[RexCathedra]

I am unsure how it can compress already compressed files, especially lossy files like mp3's and jpg's, without further losses.

 

[Ice Man]

Christ

How much

 

[Robot Chicken]

It's FREE.

http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_9_93_17572.html

 

[Ice Man]

Cheers.

 

[clapham_gull]

I am unsure how it can compress already compressed files, especially lossy files like mp3's and jpg's, without further losses.

I was about to post the same

 

[clapham_gull]

Look what I found from a review


Here are the results:

Starting file size:
772Mb

KGB Archiver
Final file size 209.2 Mb Time to compress 2 hours 36 minutes.

WinRAR
Final file size 233.9 Mb Time to compress 8 minutes.

WinZip
Final file size 291.2 Mb Time to compress 2 minutes.

 

[Ice Man]

Look what I found from a review


Here are the results:

Starting file size:
772Mb

KGB Archiver
Final file size 209.2 Mb Time to compress 2 hours 36 minutes

 

[BensGrandad]

Please be patient with 'an old codger' but do these file compressors reduce the space taken up on the hard drive and also can you open the files as normal to re-use.

If so how do you compress the files that are already on the hard drive.

 

[Rangdo]

Please be patient with 'an old codger' but do these file compressors reduce the space taken up on the hard drive and also can you open the files as normal to re-use.

If so how do you compress the files that are already on the hard drive.

On Windows machines you can usually right click and select send to compressed folder or something similar. The amount of space saved will depend on what files are in the compressed folder. If the files are already compressed in some way such as jpegs or mpegs then compression won't be as good as if you are compressing text documents.

 

[Cian]

Realistically, its compression algo (PAQ) is 20-25% better than the algo used in Zip, the test files used are heavily skewed to make it look better.

Also remember that images, video and music files rarely compress more than another 5% than their normal size, so you'll fit, ohh, another 5% more porn on the CD, thats all.

 

[BensGrandad]

On Windows machines you can usually right click and select send to compressed folder or something similar. The amount of space saved will depend on what files are in the compressed folder. If the files are already compressed in some way such as jpegs or mpegs then compression won't be as good as if you are compressing text documents.

Do you do this with each individual file i.e each letter etc or can you do it for the whole of the C Drive Hard Disk.

 

[Cian]

You can't run out of the compressed files, so while you could compress an entire drive, it won't save you space - it'll waste about another 70% more.

If you're running on NTFS you can turn on its in-built compression but it slows down file access something terrible.