When people talk about file compression, they usually mean ZIP. In fact, they often make it into a verb–much like we “Google” things on the Internet, we “zip” files before sending them over email. But ...

Windows has a number of good file archiving and unarchiving utilities, and which one you use generally depends on what you'll be using it for. For most users, we recommend the simple, fast, and ...

If you’ve ever sent, or received, a big file via email, you’ve undoubtably encountered a zip file. Double-click one of these and it expands to show files hidden inside. A zip file, or archive, takes ...

Click to viewWhether you've been sent a simple ZIP archive, you need to create and share your own compressed files, or you're staring down the barrel of some obscure archive format you've never seen ...

If you want to squeeze the greatest amount of data onto your hard drive, compression is the way to go — and the ZIP format has long been a trusted method that nearly any Windows user can invoke.

The ever-popular Windows file compression utility WinZip is moving to the cloud with a new website called ZipShare. As you might expect, ZipShare offers an online file compression utility that lets ...

WinZip, makers of the file compression utility first launched in the early 90’s that still sees north of 30 million downloads per year, is today making a shift to the cloud. The company is launching ...

I have about 22GB of data involving about 350,000 fairly small files that I am migrating between datacenters during a downtime window. Transfer time between the two datacenters is acceptable if we ...

Apimac has released Compress Files 2.0, an update to their file compression utility for Mac OS X. Compress Files costs $9.95 for a single-user license. Compress Files is used to archive, compress, ...

If you want to squeeze the greatest amount of data onto your hard drive, compression is the way to go — and the ZIP format has long been a trusted method that nearly any Windows user can invoke.