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Yes, I think I was mistaken on that folder I said had shrunk from 1142K to
377K. It was composed of a lot of images as well as text files. On closer inspection, it was not the same as the one I was trying to shrink the other day. So what do you guys think of (or know about) "Ultimate Zip?" - Linda "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... Text, and text based files will compress at 4:1 or so. -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "Unknown" wrote in message .com... My guess is that you are mistaken. To compress by approximately 75% is next to impossible. "Linda Sewell" wrote in message ... OK, I guess I need to find myself another zip utility. I've received one recommendation for a free application called "Ultimate Zip," at http://www.ultimatezip.com/ I haven't looked into it yet . Anyone else know this software to be good? (I'm always a little leery of free stuff, though "free" definitely makes it appealing!) - Linda "Linda Sewell" wrote in message ... Yes, I appreciate that some files/folders may not compress too much. But two weeks ago I compressed a1142-Kb folder to 377 Kb; NOW when I send this same 1142-Kb folder to the Compressed Folder the resulting zipped folder is 1125 Kb. In other words, this folder shrunk to 377 Kb before, but now, using exactly the same uncompressed folder as I did last time, it won't shrink hardly at all.So in the past couple of weeks something as gone awry with my computer's ability to compress files and folders. What worked two weeks ago, doesn't work now. - Linda "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... Linda, This wouldn't appear to be a problem with XP, if StuffIt is giving you the same indications, since it uses a different compression engine. Note: some types of compressed files (video, pics and the like) won't compress much more. -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "Linda Sewell" wrote in message ... (I sent this message yesterday, but it doesn't seem to have been posted to the group so here it is again....) Doug, the problem is not with OPENING zip files--the problem is not being able to actually COMPRESS files. For example, on March 17th I compressed a1142 Kb folder to 377 Kb; today I send this same 1142 folder to the Compressed Folder and the resulting zipped folder is 1125 Kb. I've even restored Stuffit and tried compressing with it, and the same thing happens--the compressed folder is only a TINY bit smaller than the original So my compression feature is not working right; I can extract things fine, but I can only compress them by a couple of kilobytes. - Linda "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... It re-registers the ZIP handler. If you still can't open ZIP files, then you may need to restore the file associations as well. www.dougknox.com, Win XP Fixes, File Association Fixes. You'll find ZIP files in the list. -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "Linda Sewell" wrote in message ... Thanks, Doug, I tried that and nothing seems to have changed. What exactly does that command do? "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... Click Start, Run and enter REGSVR32 ZIPFLDR.DLL Note the space between the two parts of the command. -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "Linda Sewell" wrote in message ... Can someone help me with the Compressed Folder feature? I downloaded Stuffit awhile ago, and I gather it replaced Compressed Folder as my compression application. Yesterday I got a message that my trial time-limit was up for Stuffit, so I removed it from my computer. Now the Compressed Folder feature doesn't seem to work at all. If I select a folder, then go to the file menu and select New, Compressed Folder doesn't appear. I can select a file and right-click it, and Compressed Folder appears in the Send To options. But if I use this feature, a "zipped" folder appears containing the file, but the file remains the same size as the original. I've tried adding a bunch more files to the folder, and I've tried selecting the compress feature under Properties/Advanced when I right-click the folder, but nothing actually causes my files to be any smaller. The Compressed Folder remains the same size as the total size of all the files I put in it. Does anyone know what's going on here? Please, if you don't know the answer, but can suggest a resource I might check out for help, let me know. |
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Compressed Folder
Yes, I think I was mistaken on that folder I said had shrunk from 1142K to
377K. It was composed of a lot of images as well as text files. On closer inspection, it was not the same as the one I was trying to shrink the other day. So what do you guys think of (or know about) "Ultimate Zip?" - Linda "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... Text, and text based files will compress at 4:1 or so. -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "Unknown" wrote in message .com... My guess is that you are mistaken. To compress by approximately 75% is next to impossible. "Linda Sewell" wrote in message ... OK, I guess I need to find myself another zip utility. I've received one recommendation for a free application called "Ultimate Zip," at http://www.ultimatezip.com/ I haven't looked into it yet . Anyone else know this software to be good? (I'm always a little leery of free stuff, though "free" definitely makes it appealing!) - Linda "Linda Sewell" wrote in message ... Yes, I appreciate that some files/folders may not compress too much. But two weeks ago I compressed a1142-Kb folder to 377 Kb; NOW when I send this same 1142-Kb folder to the Compressed Folder the resulting zipped folder is 1125 Kb. In other words, this folder shrunk to 377 Kb before, but now, using exactly the same uncompressed folder as I did last time, it won't shrink hardly at all.So in the past couple of weeks something as gone awry with my computer's ability to compress files and folders. What worked two weeks ago, doesn't work now. - Linda "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... Linda, This wouldn't appear to be a problem with XP, if StuffIt is giving you the same indications, since it uses a different compression engine. Note: some types of compressed files (video, pics and the like) won't compress much more. -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "Linda Sewell" wrote in message ... (I sent this message yesterday, but it doesn't seem to have been posted to the group so here it is again....) Doug, the problem is not with OPENING zip files--the problem is not being able to actually COMPRESS files. For example, on March 17th I compressed a1142 Kb folder to 377 Kb; today I send this same 1142 folder to the Compressed Folder and the resulting zipped folder is 1125 Kb. I've even restored Stuffit and tried compressing with it, and the same thing happens--the compressed folder is only a TINY bit smaller than the original So my compression feature is not working right; I can extract things fine, but I can only compress them by a couple of kilobytes. - Linda "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... It re-registers the ZIP handler. If you still can't open ZIP files, then you may need to restore the file associations as well. www.dougknox.com, Win XP Fixes, File Association Fixes. You'll find ZIP files in the list. -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "Linda Sewell" wrote in message ... Thanks, Doug, I tried that and nothing seems to have changed. What exactly does that command do? "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... Click Start, Run and enter REGSVR32 ZIPFLDR.DLL Note the space between the two parts of the command. -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "Linda Sewell" wrote in message ... Can someone help me with the Compressed Folder feature? I downloaded Stuffit awhile ago, and I gather it replaced Compressed Folder as my compression application. Yesterday I got a message that my trial time-limit was up for Stuffit, so I removed it from my computer. Now the Compressed Folder feature doesn't seem to work at all. If I select a folder, then go to the file menu and select New, Compressed Folder doesn't appear. I can select a file and right-click it, and Compressed Folder appears in the Send To options. But if I use this feature, a "zipped" folder appears containing the file, but the file remains the same size as the original. I've tried adding a bunch more files to the folder, and I've tried selecting the compress feature under Properties/Advanced when I right-click the folder, but nothing actually causes my files to be any smaller. The Compressed Folder remains the same size as the total size of all the files I put in it. Does anyone know what's going on here? Please, if you don't know the answer, but can suggest a resource I might check out for help, let me know. |
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I don't know anything about it. The usual adage is "you get what you pay
for", but I can remember when PKZip was DOS and shareware. A lot of the "free" programs out there are very good. All I can say is try it, you might like it -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "Linda Sewell" wrote in message ... Yes, I think I was mistaken on that folder I said had shrunk from 1142K to 377K. It was composed of a lot of images as well as text files. On closer inspection, it was not the same as the one I was trying to shrink the other day. So what do you guys think of (or know about) "Ultimate Zip?" - Linda "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... Text, and text based files will compress at 4:1 or so. -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "Unknown" wrote in message .com... My guess is that you are mistaken. To compress by approximately 75% is next to impossible. "Linda Sewell" wrote in message ... OK, I guess I need to find myself another zip utility. I've received one recommendation for a free application called "Ultimate Zip," at http://www.ultimatezip.com/ I haven't looked into it yet . Anyone else know this software to be good? (I'm always a little leery of free stuff, though "free" definitely makes it appealing!) - Linda "Linda Sewell" wrote in message ... Yes, I appreciate that some files/folders may not compress too much. But two weeks ago I compressed a1142-Kb folder to 377 Kb; NOW when I send this same 1142-Kb folder to the Compressed Folder the resulting zipped folder is 1125 Kb. In other words, this folder shrunk to 377 Kb before, but now, using exactly the same uncompressed folder as I did last time, it won't shrink hardly at all.So in the past couple of weeks something as gone awry with my computer's ability to compress files and folders. What worked two weeks ago, doesn't work now. - Linda "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... Linda, This wouldn't appear to be a problem with XP, if StuffIt is giving you the same indications, since it uses a different compression engine. Note: some types of compressed files (video, pics and the like) won't compress much more. -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "Linda Sewell" wrote in message ... (I sent this message yesterday, but it doesn't seem to have been posted to the group so here it is again....) Doug, the problem is not with OPENING zip files--the problem is not being able to actually COMPRESS files. For example, on March 17th I compressed a1142 Kb folder to 377 Kb; today I send this same 1142 folder to the Compressed Folder and the resulting zipped folder is 1125 Kb. I've even restored Stuffit and tried compressing with it, and the same thing happens--the compressed folder is only a TINY bit smaller than the original So my compression feature is not working right; I can extract things fine, but I can only compress them by a couple of kilobytes. - Linda "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... It re-registers the ZIP handler. If you still can't open ZIP files, then you may need to restore the file associations as well. www.dougknox.com, Win XP Fixes, File Association Fixes. You'll find ZIP files in the list. -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "Linda Sewell" wrote in message ... Thanks, Doug, I tried that and nothing seems to have changed. What exactly does that command do? "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... Click Start, Run and enter REGSVR32 ZIPFLDR.DLL Note the space between the two parts of the command. -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "Linda Sewell" wrote in message ... Can someone help me with the Compressed Folder feature? I downloaded Stuffit awhile ago, and I gather it replaced Compressed Folder as my compression application. Yesterday I got a message that my trial time-limit was up for Stuffit, so I removed it from my computer. Now the Compressed Folder feature doesn't seem to work at all. If I select a folder, then go to the file menu and select New, Compressed Folder doesn't appear. I can select a file and right-click it, and Compressed Folder appears in the Send To options. But if I use this feature, a "zipped" folder appears containing the file, but the file remains the same size as the original. I've tried adding a bunch more files to the folder, and I've tried selecting the compress feature under Properties/Advanced when I right-click the folder, but nothing actually causes my files to be any smaller. The Compressed Folder remains the same size as the total size of all the files I put in it. Does anyone know what's going on here? Please, if you don't know the answer, but can suggest a resource I might check out for help, let me know. |
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I don't know anything about it. The usual adage is "you get what you pay
for", but I can remember when PKZip was DOS and shareware. A lot of the "free" programs out there are very good. All I can say is try it, you might like it -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "Linda Sewell" wrote in message ... Yes, I think I was mistaken on that folder I said had shrunk from 1142K to 377K. It was composed of a lot of images as well as text files. On closer inspection, it was not the same as the one I was trying to shrink the other day. So what do you guys think of (or know about) "Ultimate Zip?" - Linda "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... Text, and text based files will compress at 4:1 or so. -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "Unknown" wrote in message .com... My guess is that you are mistaken. To compress by approximately 75% is next to impossible. "Linda Sewell" wrote in message ... OK, I guess I need to find myself another zip utility. I've received one recommendation for a free application called "Ultimate Zip," at http://www.ultimatezip.com/ I haven't looked into it yet . Anyone else know this software to be good? (I'm always a little leery of free stuff, though "free" definitely makes it appealing!) - Linda "Linda Sewell" wrote in message ... Yes, I appreciate that some files/folders may not compress too much. But two weeks ago I compressed a1142-Kb folder to 377 Kb; NOW when I send this same 1142-Kb folder to the Compressed Folder the resulting zipped folder is 1125 Kb. In other words, this folder shrunk to 377 Kb before, but now, using exactly the same uncompressed folder as I did last time, it won't shrink hardly at all.So in the past couple of weeks something as gone awry with my computer's ability to compress files and folders. What worked two weeks ago, doesn't work now. - Linda "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... Linda, This wouldn't appear to be a problem with XP, if StuffIt is giving you the same indications, since it uses a different compression engine. Note: some types of compressed files (video, pics and the like) won't compress much more. -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "Linda Sewell" wrote in message ... (I sent this message yesterday, but it doesn't seem to have been posted to the group so here it is again....) Doug, the problem is not with OPENING zip files--the problem is not being able to actually COMPRESS files. For example, on March 17th I compressed a1142 Kb folder to 377 Kb; today I send this same 1142 folder to the Compressed Folder and the resulting zipped folder is 1125 Kb. I've even restored Stuffit and tried compressing with it, and the same thing happens--the compressed folder is only a TINY bit smaller than the original So my compression feature is not working right; I can extract things fine, but I can only compress them by a couple of kilobytes. - Linda "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... It re-registers the ZIP handler. If you still can't open ZIP files, then you may need to restore the file associations as well. www.dougknox.com, Win XP Fixes, File Association Fixes. You'll find ZIP files in the list. -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "Linda Sewell" wrote in message ... Thanks, Doug, I tried that and nothing seems to have changed. What exactly does that command do? "Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote in message ... Click Start, Run and enter REGSVR32 ZIPFLDR.DLL Note the space between the two parts of the command. -- Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows XP/ Windows Smart Display Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes http://www.dougknox.com -------------------------------- Associate Expert ExpertZone - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone -------------------------------- Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Unsolicited e-mail is not answered. "Linda Sewell" wrote in message ... Can someone help me with the Compressed Folder feature? I downloaded Stuffit awhile ago, and I gather it replaced Compressed Folder as my compression application. Yesterday I got a message that my trial time-limit was up for Stuffit, so I removed it from my computer. Now the Compressed Folder feature doesn't seem to work at all. If I select a folder, then go to the file menu and select New, Compressed Folder doesn't appear. I can select a file and right-click it, and Compressed Folder appears in the Send To options. But if I use this feature, a "zipped" folder appears containing the file, but the file remains the same size as the original. I've tried adding a bunch more files to the folder, and I've tried selecting the compress feature under Properties/Advanced when I right-click the folder, but nothing actually causes my files to be any smaller. The Compressed Folder remains the same size as the total size of all the files I put in it. Does anyone know what's going on here? Please, if you don't know the answer, but can suggest a resource I might check out for help, let me know. |
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