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How Do You Compress a Photo in Photoshop?

Adobe Photoshop is a comprehensive photo editing software system. As the resolution of digital cameras improves, the file size of each photo increases, and compressing photographs for storage or for...

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How to Zip Files Using VB Net

Knowing how to zip files using Visual Basic.NET (VB.NET) can save you time if you need to compress a lot of files. Zip is a file format used for file compression. Files are often zipped if they're...

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How to Zip Files in Office 2007

Microsoft Office is a suite of productivity applications, including the standards Word and Excel. A Zip file is a compressed folder, containing multiple files. The purpose of a zip file is to reduce...

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How to Compress Files in VB Net

Visual Basic.NET comes packaged with a library for compressing and decompressing files using the GZip standard (not to be confused with the more common Zip standard, which is unsupported by Visual...

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How to Compress Data in MS Excel

You use your computer to input and store data. When this is a continuous file that accumulates data from month to month, the file can get too large and unwieldy to transmit over regular Internet or...

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How to Convert ZIP to RAR

You can use the traditional WinRAR program or other software converters for converting ZIP archive files into RAR format. The file recipient must have WinRAR or any such converter software installed on...

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How to Correct Checksum Errors in Zip Files

The Cheksum on your computer is used to scan files before they load on your operating system. Cheksum is used to make sure your files are able to launch without damaging your system. When the Checksum...

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ZIP RAR ACE Password Recovery With Key

ZIP, RAR and ACE file types are all files that have been compressed in order to make it easier to send and share them online without taking up a great deal of space. When you use one of these methods...

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How to Compress a .Vob File to Fit on a Blank DVD

Sometimes, the files on a DVD are too large to be burned by a standard home DVD burner. Often, this is the result of a home video being recorded onto a dual-layer DVD, resulting in files that are...

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How to Create Zip Folders

ZIP is a data compression format used to archive files. Zipping files and folders is a more efficient way to send numerous files online. The format was originally released in 1998 for use with the...

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How to Get Win Zip for Free

WinZip is a compressor and file archive software for Microsoft Windows. With WinZip, you can create, extract and share ZIP files, as well as other archive files. You can download a free-trial version...

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How to Compress Files Over 4Gb to Under 1Gb

Compressing files conserves hard disk storage space by reducing the size of files. Some files, such as video and picture files, are already compressed by the algorithm used to create the files....

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Portable Zip Password Recovery

There are few things more frustrating than forgetting the password to your own ZIP archive, especially when it contains important files you (or your boss) need right now. Portable ZIP Password Recovery...

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How to Compress JavaScript With NetBeans

When optimizing websites, one of the methods used to increase the speed of a web page is to compress files that contain code such as CSS and JavaScript. The process is called "minifying," which means...

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How to Add Comments to Zip File LFN

WinRAR, WinZip and 7-zip are among the most popular archiving utilities available at the time of writing. All three support long file names -- such as "How to Add Comments to a Zip File.zip," instead...

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How to Create a Zip Code Locator

Creating a simple program that can locate the city for a given zip code requires first building a database of all the Zip codes in America and their corresponding cities, and then building the program...

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Windows ZIP File Size Limits

A ZIP file archive holds one or more files of any format and compresses them to save disk space without compromising the data. While ZIP archives may hold no files within, they do have upper limits...

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How to Zip Files on Windows 7

Zipping your files into a compressed folder, also called a ZIP file, shrinks file sizes and packages numerous files into a single container. Windows 7 includes a tool to create ZIP files from any type...

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How to Compress Pictures on Mac OS X

If you take pictures with a high-resolution camera and then transfer them to your Mac, you may find that they are starting to take up a lot of hard drive space that you'd rather use to store other...

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How to Put a Video Into a ZIP File

A ZIP file acts as a container that can hold multiple files. It works by compressing the files to reduce their overall file size. If you have large video files that you want to upload online, email or...

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How to Put Files Into a Zip Folder

Transporting a large number of files requires some preparation if it is to be accomplished in an organized fashion. If you have ever attempted to email multiple files to someone or had to download...

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How to Uninstall 7-Zip

7-Zip is a free open source software package designed to handle many different file compression formats. Some of the many different formats it can use include 7-zip, zip, g-zip, rar, tar and ace. 7-zip...

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How to Compress an Image Using Snagit

TechSmith's Snagit is a commercial screen capture utility. After capturing and editing your images with Snagit, you'll need to save them in an image file format to make them viewable without loading...

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How to Compress a PDF With CutePDF Pro

CutePDF Pro is a small application that enables you to create, manipulate and edit Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. CutePDF Pro functions in many ways just like its more expensive nemesis,...

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How to Compress or Zip a File

To zip or compress a file is to shrink its size to make it more manageable for sharing and downloading purposes. One or more files can be compressed into a single zipped folder. Compressed or zipped...

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How to Make a Zip File With WinRAR With No Compression

Although many people take advantage of compression in their archives, the process of compressing large or numerous small files can take time both to create the archive and to extract it. Whether you...

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How to Use 7-Zip on Linux

7-Zip is a compression and archival format, originally developed for the Microsoft Windows operating system. A 7-Zip archive is a file that contains many other files, possibly compressing them to save...

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How to Compress .PNG in Fireworks

Fireworks is an image-editing program that allows you to create and edit PNG files. PNG files can have a large size, but you can compress them for Web display. Compressing the files reduces bandwidth...

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How to Find a Hidden Zip File

To find a hidden file in Windows, first set hidden files to be visible in Windows Explorer after which hidden files will show up in search results. To find hidden zip files on the computer, perform a...

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How to Join RAR Files With 7-Zip

Similar to the popular ZIP file compression format, the RAR format allows you to compress files to conserve storage space. One major advantage of RAR is its ability to compress files into multi-part...

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How to Compress an EPS File

EPS is an image file used by many graphical editing programs. If you have an EPS file that you are no longer using, but you want to keep, you can compress it. This will condense the file's size so that...

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How to Connect an Iomega Zip Drive With Parallel Interface to a USB Port on a...

Earlier models of the Iomega Zip drive used an external parallel port connection, as opposed to the later drives' USB and Firewire connections. You can convert the parallel port to an USB connection...

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How to Use File Attributes With 7-Zip

7-Zip is an open source file archiver that has a high compression ratio. Although 7-Zip can handle the usual compressed file formats, users can also associate other formats with the application. The...

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How to Compress an AVCHD File

Attempting to fit a large file on storage media with a finite amount of space, such as a blank disc or a memory card, can be frustrating if the file is slightly larger than the amount of space...

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Which Is the Best Compression Mode in WinRAR?

In addition to creating compressed archives using both ".rar" and ".zip" formats, WinRAR allows you to choose compression modes to further shrink the size of archives you create. If your goal is the...

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How to Compress a "Super Smash Bros Brawl" ISO File

Released in 2008 for the Nintendo Wii, Super Smash Brothers Brawl is a multi-player side-scrolling combat game. The game is stored on the first usage of dual-layer DVD discs for the Wii. Since...

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How to Zip MP3 Files

Zip files allow users to compress, or archive, a number of other files (including MP3 music) to a smaller format for storage purposes. Since zip files are smaller in size, they are more easily...

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How to Extract a Zip File With Python

Python is an open license programming language available in Windows, Linux and Mac, plus Java .Net virtual machines. Python features three versions, with each newer version adding more compatibility...

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How to Zip PNG Files

PNG is an image format that stands for "Portable Network Graphics." It's often used in place of GIF since the GIF image format has a patent on it. PNG is free of any license or patent. If you have a...

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How to Extract ZIP Files With Perl

One of the core PERL modules that comes with every installation of the scripting language is the Archive module, which includes a number of tools for working with ZIP files and other types of archives....

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How do I Open a Corrupted or Invalid Zip File?

Zip files, also known as archives, are compressed files. They are sometimes used to keep several files together that pertain to the same information. Sometimes the files become corrupt or invalid and...

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How to Compress a DMG in a Mac

A DMG file, or "disk image", allows you to copy exact CD and DVD data on an Apple computer by placing the digital blueprints in a single file. In other words, you can take the contents of a CD,...

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How to Unzip the Zip Files in HP-UX

HP-UX is the proprietary version of the UNIX operating system that ships with UNIX-equipped Hewlett Packard machines. HP-UX is designed to provide a simple yet high-performance UNIX environment for use...

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How to Compress a Blu-ray Movie

Blu-ray discs (BD) store up to 50 gigabytes of high-definition video and audio for playback on compatible players and computers. The format supports a maximum video resolution of 1080p, considerably...

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How to Find the Best Free Zip Software

File compression and archival tools, also known as Zip software, can compress one or more files or folders into a single file that has a smaller size than the original files. You may find this useful...

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How to Compress My ISO File to Save On a Regular 700Mb CD

Computer users without access to a CD or DVD drive use the ISO format. An ISO file is essentially the files of a data CD that have been copied and reformatted on another computer. This new data, known...

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How to Compress Raw Files

Raw files are images that have yet to be processed into a lossy image format, such as JPEG or BMP. Raws are typically heavy, and users may want to compress them into a zip folder to create backups,...

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How to Zip a File in DOS

Phil Katz founded PKWARE Incorporated and introduced the ZIP format in 1989. His file compression programs, PKZIP, PKUNZIP and ZIP2EXE became today's compression software standard. PKZIP compresses...

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How to Compress Photos in OpenOffice

OpenOffice is a free, multi-OS office productivity suite which allows users of many different systems to share office files. Keeping these files at a manageable size is important for efficiency of data...

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How to Zip Files Using VBA

When programming in Microsoft Office Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), it is sometimes necessary to open or call other programs from within Word, Excel or Access. The easiest way to perform this...

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