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View Poll Results: What kinds of files do you USUALLY compress?
Lossy compressed music files (MP3, WMA) 12 40.00%
Lossless compressed music files (FLAC, etc.) 4 13.33%
Uncompressed music files (WAV) 6 20.00%
Lossy compressed graphics (JPG) 14 46.67%
Lossless compressed graphics (PNG, GIF, PSD, TIF) 14 46.67%
Uncompressed graphics (BMP) 9 30.00%
Compressed HD/SD video clips (MPEG, DiVX, AVI, WMV) 4 13.33%
Work Documents (DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX) 22 73.33%
Presentations (PPT) 12 40.00%
Pure Text Files (TXT, CSV) 11 36.67%
Adobe Acrobat eBooks (PDF) 12 40.00%
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Old 25th Apr 2008, 03:41 AM   #21 (permalink)
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You actually compress EXEs???
well, I save my installation programs and also for security reason
so virus don't affect the .exe, if we password-protect it.
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Usually compressing .EXE's don't make it any smaller though, seeing as the installer already compressed it.
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well, I'm trying to reduce as many as I could as my .exe is taking 1/6 spaces of my hdd
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well, I'm trying to reduce as many as I could as my .exe is taking 1/6 spaces of my hdd
Time for a new hard drive
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Since there is already a compressed music format (mp3) above, it is not surprising exe file will be mentioned althought compressing them will not result in much difference.
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I guess I'm the oddball; I can't think of a single thing I compress, except on very rare occasions.
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It's already listed above - Uncompressed graphics (BMP)
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