So, let's focus on the first option because from now on the procedure is mostly the same. Or you can directly open the Windows Explorer and browse to them, select them and right-click on them, as you can see the right-click menu shows a series of options regarding the 7-Zip compression options. The first step you have to take is to select the files you are going to compress, to do so you have to ways: either you open the 7-Zip file manager and browse to the folder where such files are stored in as you can see in the next screen capture: In order to properly follow this tutorial, you need 7-Zip installed and running in your computer, if you don't have it yet, hit the “Download” button on top of this page, run the installer once you have downloaded it and follow the instructions, InstallIQ™ will take care of the rest. Today I'm going to tell you how to make the best of this free fully featured free file archiver by compressing files in the 7z format. 7-Zip is really efficient at really low system resources consumption specially when used to compress texts. 7-Zip Tutorial #3 – How to Compress Files in the 7z Formatħ-Zip is a great free file compression manager that offers an innovative compression format, the 7z format, with its unique compression capability this archives manipulation utility achieves higher compression ratios than other standard formats like ZIP or RAR.

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