This compression may be lossless, such as in png files, or lossy, as in jpg files. Lossless photo compression works similarly to zip and rar compression: it packs data with a reversible algorithm.

Those compression tools are built into nearly every computing device. Facebook noted: Today, the reigning data compression standard is Deflate, the core algorithm inside Zip, gzip, and zlib.

The basic PK file format is well understood, but it can use any compression algorithm! Usually it's your bog standard "DEFLATE" (Huffman tables + LZ77) algorithm but you can put anything in it.

Additionally, 7-Zip can compress files into other popular formats, including ZIP and TAR, while also being able to read/extract files from even more file types, such as EXT, RAR, and XAR.

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So long, WinRAR 30-day trial memes. Windows 11 is getting native RAR, 7-Zip, and GZ file compression support.

Version 25.00 of the widely used compression tool 7-Zip was released at the weekend. It speeds up some compression algorithms – and also closes security gaps. In the development history on the 7 ...

As a result, formats like 7-Zip and RAR necessitated the use of third-party tools such as WinRAR. Microsoft stated that the support for these file compression formats will roll out in the upcoming ...

Earlier this year, we reported on Microsoft expanding its compression support in Windows 11 to include native RAR, 7-Zip, and other file formats that aren't your basic ZIP files.