I'm trying to ZIP a file(exe) to send to a friend. From what I understood a compressing the file into a .ZIP is suppose to reduce the file size. Only that doesn't seem to be the case. I right click the file selected 7zip>Add file to … zip but the zip file that is created is the same size as the original exe. I then tried making a .7z file, for some reason it turned out to be larger than the original exe file.
What is going on? Why are the zip/7z not reducing in size?
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Your EXE file is not 100% EXE.
It's small EXE unpacker and something like ZIP archive, that contains real data, for example, real big EXE file.
When you call your exe, it's unpacks real data to RAM or to HDD.
You can't compress same file twice.
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I'm trying to ZIP a file(exe) to send to a friend. From what I understood a compressing the file into a .ZIP is suppose to reduce the file size. Only that doesn't seem to be the case. I right click the file selected 7zip>Add file to … zip but the zip file that is created is the same size as the original exe. I then tried making a .7z file, for some reason it turned out to be larger than the original exe file.
What is going on? Why are the zip/7z not reducing in size?
Your exe file is already compressed.
I want it compress more.. thought that was the point of ZIP files to make things smaller
Your EXE file is not 100% EXE.
It's small EXE unpacker and something like ZIP archive, that contains real data, for example, real big EXE file.
When you call your exe, it's unpacks real data to RAM or to HDD.
You can't compress same file twice.