Thanks to ever-growing hard-drive capacities and ever-faster network connections, compressing files isn’t quite the vital and frequent task it used to be. Still, it’s useful in certain situations; for ...

If you've ever grown tired of the "Storage Almost Full" warning, you're not alone. My main drive fills up faster than I can clear it, but I'm finally tackling the problem for good without losing ...

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Here is a full guide for you on how to batch compress PDF files on your Windows 11/10 PC. PDF compression is a process that reduces the size of a PDF file to facilitate sharing on the web. You may ...

Need to send someone a big batch of files? Don’t attach one after another after another to your e-mail. Instead, compress the files into one smaller, easier-to-manage file. In other words, “Zip” them.

There are a number of tools that you use to compress files on Linux systems, but they don't all behave the same way or yield the same level of compression. In this post, we compare five of them. There ...

To start using the Zstandard compression tool, you first need to install it on your Linux system. The installation process varies slightly depending on the Linux distribution you are using. Zstandard ...

A high-resolution video appeals to everyone for the details it contains. However, as smartphones continue to gain support for high-resolution video recording, storing and sharing large video files is ...

We all know that we need to compress a large file if we want to transfer or send it to someone. But have you ever thought about what happens to a file when it is compressed? How does the size of a ...

In the world of Unix-based operating systems like Linux, file packaging and compression utilities play a pivotal role. One such utility is the zip command, an effective tool for compressing files to ...

No, compression SLOWS things down (noticably in case of the OS drive), because it has to compress and decompress files all the time ...