Re: No compressed folder options
From: Pat Garard (garard_at_bigpond.net.au)
Date: 09/29/03
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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:18:50 +1000
LET'S BE CLEAR!!!!
1) There is no particular connection between Winzip and Compressed
Folders.
The Winzip Application is used to collect and compress files so
that:
-You may have a smaller attachment for an e-mail
-You may send an '.exe' to somebody and ensure that Outlook lets
it through (Outlook will rip off files with certain extensions
like .exe
and .pif).
-You can fit it on a floppy (or a set of floppies using
spanning).
-....and other similar facilities.
2) The ability to compress folders on disk, is a built-in feature of
Windows Xp that allows you to trade off performance for disk space
(you use up
less disk space, but opening files etc will be a tad slower). This
compression is entirely transparent - if you copy/move a file, any
decompression/recompression etc is handled automatically by Xp.
If you open, in (say) Word, a document that happens to be
compressed then Word is entirely unaware - Xp gives it the
decompressed version, and recompresses it on Save.
WinZip and Windows Compressed Folders use the same
underlying compression technology, but you should not
allow yourself to be confused - they are logically separate
applications.
The danger is that, if you UnInstall WinZip, you lose the ability
to service Compressed Folders.
Sorry to be long-winded, but I hope I have cleared things up a bit!
-- Hope this helps! Pat Garard Australia
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