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• FileOptimizer — Over 90 tools working together to squish your files

  Posted on April 28, 2025 at 02:42 CDT by Deanna McElveen • Comment in the Forums

  FREEWARE SPOTLIGHT

  

  By Deanna McElveen

  There are many reasons to make your files smaller, from compressing images for a website so they load faster to sending dog pics to your cousin Brody who uses dial-up Internet in the swamp.

  FileOptimizer by Spanish developer Javier Gutiérrez Chamorro is a collection of over 90 free and/or open-source programs that all work together to do one thing: squish your files down to their smallest size without messing them up. So if you’re just too cheap to spend more than $2.95 on a flash drive, this program is for you!

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (22.17.0, 2025-04-28).

  Freeware Spotlight Deanna's Freeware Spotlight, File compression, FileOptimizer, Newsletters, Tetrimone, Tetris

• Comparing three file-compression tools

  Posted on February 24, 2020 at 01:00 CST by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  GENERAL COMPUTING

  By Lance Whitney

  Windows includes its own tool for compressing and uncompressing single files, multiple files, and entire folders.

  But the two most popular third-party compression tools — 7-Zip and WinZip — are far more powerful and capable.

  Windows’ built-in ZIP tool will get the job done for basic compression tasks, but it has some important limitations. For example, it has no option for creating or unzipping encrypted files. You also can’t control the compression format or level. Those are all options 7-Zip and WinZip handle with ease.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.8.0 (2020-02-24).

  Utilities 7-Zip, AskWoody Plus Newsletter, encryption, File compression, WinZip, ZIP files