[GuestPost] Better Ways to Use Files - Compress Files

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Better Ways to Use Files

Your personal files are the most important data on your PC.

Windows can be reinstalled and software replaced, but your creations and personal affections cannot. They represent your time and effort so I am here to talk about the best ways to handle them.

This guide has a bunch of easy ways for you to save, organize, and manipulate files.

This guide will recommend an application to do each of these functions and explain why they are great if not best at it.

Compressing Files

7-Zip

http://www.7-zip.org/

License: free, open source

OS compatible: Windows, Mac; various flavors of UNIX

Features:

High compression format (7z file type)

Supports many compressed formats.

Zips files better than WinZip

AES-256 bit encryption capable

Self-extracting capable

Right click integration

File manager GUI

Command line options

Multi language support

Alternates: WinZip, PKZip

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