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How to make 7-Zip faster
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I normally use WinRAR over 7-Zip simply because it's faster and only a little less efficient with compression. I did a few tests on different file types and sizes comparing the 7-Zip and WinRAR default settings on their normal compression and their best compression, and in a lot of cases WinRAR was…
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If you get the 7-Zip 9.13 beta you can change the archive type to LZMA2 and thus be able to use as many threads as you like, though the memory usage goes up phenomenally. Install the beta, right click the stuff you want to archive then under the 7-Z…
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