SRL Archive - Computer Help and Tutorials

Introduction:
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you one of the greatest programs ever made: Peazip. Before you go "OMFG GAY NAME LOLZ0RS", know that this program is basically Winrar on steroids. I have made this guide for those who have a massive crapload of stuff on their harddrive and want to get rid of it, etc.

Note that this doesn't work as well with media (video, audio). It works much better with programs.

What this program does:
-Converts large files into small files so you can email them, whatever
-Good for putting tons of programs + games in a small file
Example: You're gonna reformat. You don't wanna download all your stuff g
onto your fresh harddrive. Solution? Download all your shit now, put all of it in a folder, then compress it using this program.

What this program does NOT do:
-Shrink your crap. Meaning that you can't shrink a 1GB iso into 4MB then play it. However, now you can email your whole game to others because it's only 4MB. All the other people have to do is install this program and extract the iso :)


Ok, how do I do this?

• Download Peazip
• Install Peazip
• Run it, click on Add File or Add Folder
• Navigate to your crap
• Click on the down arrow next to the Pea icon
• Archive Type: PAQ
• Compression: Depends on your system. Start with 7 and work your way down until it doesn't give you a memory error. Don't choose level 8 unless you have a ton of RAM to spare.
• Note: It will sit at the end for a REALLY long time. It's not frozen.
• Your outputted file should be really tiny now. Feel free to do whatever with it.

The settings


OMFG, U LIE! No, I don't. Here's a pic for you nonbelievers.

Would you want more gigabytes then megabytes?

To me this makes no cence, but im stupid so yea.

Tyvm, and to bobbo, when your hard drive is getting full, you compress some files and you will have more room in it!

Ahh thats seems more simple lol. Cant you just defragment your computer sint that the same thing?

OMFG!!! I don't believe my eyes!!

Thanks for telling this! Ill definately check this out!

O..M..F..G! Rep++ for you!

WinUHA is similar to this program.. :D thanks

From: Xtream
Tyvm, and to bobbo, when your hard drive is getting full, you compress some files and you will have more room in it!

No no…this is basically turning your files into a very small .rar or .zip file. You still have to extract them to make them work.

Also, I had no idea it takes this long…I used compression level 7 and it took 12 hours to do what it shows in that pic.

Well you would expect a long period of time do to its rewriting the whole file over and over to compress it. (I think)

Thanks, another compression program to add to my list :)

Sucks how long it takes to zip, but it's worth it!!! :D

I hope this program works… I don't want it screwing around with my files :)

I doubt compression algorithms of that strength would work well. Most large files that you'd want compressed already have a significant amount of compression (Jpegs, Tarballs, Encoded Movies). While the large file benchmark (compressing 100 megabytes of wikipedia's text dump) may come out to 16 mb, other files that are already partially compressed will have less spectacular results.

Sweet… now i can finally share those porn site rips with my friends on MSN :D

Yeah…be warned that compressing WILL take ~12-24 hours :)

Thx i tried it. Works great but sucks up a lot of ram to work.:D

Sounds ideal for backing up/re formatting.


Cheers for that!

Im going to kiss ur ass , well maybe ur scar if you made that…

Ha, I wish

Thanks! I ran out of hard drive space and blank DVDs to put stuff on so I compressed all my stuff with this program. Thanks again!

+ rep

Thats actually crazy.

How can 4 GB possibly fit into 10 Mb compressed?

It's hard to believe.

Well believe it my friend. People use uncompressed files mostly because of the ease and quickness of use. They do this because if they used compressed files as a main source, you would have to decompress them each time you use them. I don't know exactly how it works, but I know a good idea.

Holy crap… How can that be possible? And how the heck can someone make a program like this?!?

Wow, I'm absolutely amazed!

Omfg… that's amazing.

OMG!!!! thats crazy compression! this reallllly helps to smash those unneeded files that i might need later. thanks!

Some1 could check out the source code for this if they wanted… it IS on sf.net.

how long did it take you, i tryed it on a 700mb file on conpressiom 8 and it took over 15 hours.

Yep, this is something you should leave running overnight. But I guess it's worth it if you wanna backup a 100GB harddrive and email it to yourself :)

From: bobbohobbo
Ahh thats seems more simple lol. Cant you just defragment your computer sint that the same thing?

i think defragment just moves all your files on your harddrive to one spot.. so it doesnt have to look all around for them.

This ROCKS! My 10 GB of pics lol now 57mb

OMFG Yes!! My stupid mother took away my computer because I moved out to my dads, now I can take everything off of the computer and bring it here!! I love you!! (Not really I'm not gay) I vote for a sticky.

does it take as long to decompress as it does to compress?

no

From: Sp0rk-eh
Thats actually crazy.

How can 4 GB possibly fit into 10 Mb compressed?

It's hard to believe.

Most likely not. There is a small chance the data is oriented in such a way that it could store it in 10mbs. That would be *extremely* lucky though.


For all of you going "~wewt omg tht's kewl!" It's like 10 years old news. And zip IS LAME.

Use tar.gz (tarballed then gzip'ed) Much smaller.

From: klh6686
does it take as long to decompress as it does to compress?

Again, depends on the file.

From: Zeta
i think defragment just moves all your files on your harddrive to one spot.. so it doesnt have to look all around for them.

No, as you write and re-write files, the actual memory *on* the harddrive will become fragmented, parts of a file in one spot, and part in another. (sometimes a file can have data in 100 different locations)

Defragging your HD means that the actual storage on the HD become streamlined. One file is in one large spot.

This means your harddrive won't have to spin and read so much. It will not take up any more space, it should actually remove a few kilobytes of data, caused by fragmenting (nothing that you need or want).

From: bobbohobbo
Ahh thats seems more simple lol. Cant you just defragment your computer sint that the same thing?

It is not the same thing.. You should read some simple guide that explains how does the computer work :)

And nice program, im testing it right now.

HEy cool taht this works, I might try it out, only problem is that other people need the program.

Wow! This saved so much room, just got rid of 7 gigs of space :) Thanks for posting the tut!

this has helped me a lot thanks man !:(h):

so this is basically the same as winrar and winzip? or a whole different ball game?

ive never tried to do it with big files but i did it with some smaller files, it worked but ye u had to wait for hours -.- nice, thx

Compression is often dependent on the type of files.

7-zip is what I use.

havent tried but if u torrent this is exelant

Wow this is great I'm using this cause I am Re-Imaging my computer(wiping every of the computer and doing a fresh install) so I can compress the stuff I want to keep and it will fit on my 2 gig USB drive. :) Also, I'm at the end part where it just hangs, about how long is this going to take? (I only did lv 6 compression)

reminds me of that guy who put office 2007 in 4MB

Nice tutorial. Would I be correct in assuming that this isn't going to do much for files that are already compressed (.mp3, .avi, etc.)?

does the other computer need this peazip thing to open the pql files??

~Spaz

From: spaztaz666
does the other computer need this peazip thing to open the pql files??

~Spaz

yes i believe so.

But OMFG THIS IS AWSOME!

thats neat and all, but i sucks to zip and extract all the time this might be good for large companies who just store their data for storing purposes, but for us its easier to have it unzipped at all times on an external drive? good find though..i guess its pretty good with WoW…

basically Winrar on steroids

LOL

Ahh thats seems more simple lol. Cant you just defragment your computer sint that the same thing?

(sorry if im replying to a really old post or something) reee, hey i know more then bh in some thing!! woot =p
no defragmenting is where you are taking files, lets say a, b, and, c and a is 1 gig and split in three parts all over your hard disc and so is b and c so when you defragment you take all the fragments, and piece them as whole, making programs run faster as your hard disc doesnt haveto find each part sepretly.
really only needed to be done one old comps with small hard discs the fragment large files.

Wow, this is an amazing program!
Thanks for showing it to all of us!

This is EPIC!
Thanks soo much for this!

My computer isn't filled up w/ documents though :(, but could I compress like games that I don't play for now, then decompress them when I want?

sounds pretty interesting and pretty usefull

This program certainly seems attractive but I really want to try this first on my other computer so it really works, atleast the way it works seems strange enough to be a bit cautious about this program, But after reading some comments in this thread it started to interest me a bit, will try it soon enough. If this works as the way I have imagined I have Finally found a solution how I can format my computer without losing all my important setup files.

WOW fricken amazing… but I need something that can unzip and zip really fast…[H] If you know how to do this please PM me!!![/H]

omg thats superb compressing!

All this for a basic archiver!!

on the other hand, if you wanna turn gigabytes of free space into megabytes…… install…………….. Vista!!

From: PriSoner
All this for a basic archiver!!

on the other hand, if you wanna turn gigabytes of free space into megabytes…… install…………….. Vista!!

screw Vista it takes like a gig of ram to run anyway

hey nice program!
its the paq award winning compression!

finally there is a client with GUI!

thx for the nice find!

i had a better one
i had office 2007 in 500 kb ^^
its was called kgb archiver

Does it take a longtime to compress and decompress files?? and does it also decompress rar files and zip files and other compressed files?

OMFG GAY NAME LOLZERS
sorry couldn't leave it, so funny

Pretty sweet program, but while compressing the files, does it still allow programs to access singular files? IE, if i wanted to compress Command and Conquer : The first Decade, Which is a 10 Gig game (roughly,) into something smaller, could i still use the program if i didn't compress the EXE along with it? or do programs have to remain Decompressed for them to run properly?

thanks I badly need this as my 500gb hard drive is getting full already after only 2 months.

From: IsrafelDarklight
Pretty sweet program, but while compressing the files, does it still allow programs to access singular files? IE, if i wanted to compress Command and Conquer : The first Decade, Which is a 10 Gig game (roughly,) into something smaller, could i still use the program if i didn't compress the EXE along with it? or do programs have to remain Decompressed for them to run properly?

No you cant, as the .exe would still need to acess the information files

OMGWTFBBOWLOL…

9mb o.O

:eek: OMFG i tried this and it worked
i had an 80 GB HDD which i filled with crap and shit and this compressed all of it down and now i have 60GB free
i never knew compression could be soo high
rep++ and i am going to rate this thread with 5 stars *****

~shut

From: shuttleu
:eek: OMFG i tried this and it worked
i had an 80 GB HDD which i filled with crap and shit and this compressed all of it down and now i have 60GB free
i never knew compression could be soo high
rep++ and i am going to rate this thread with 5 stars *****

~shut

:eek: Bet that took awhile :p .

u dont have to use tat prog u can use any ZIP file prog such as WINRAR.

I love this :D

Nice Find, I might try it later.

nice, +rep

From: hamuthecow_ALIVE
u dont have to use tat prog u can use any ZIP file prog such as WINRAR.

how exactly do you expect win rar to do this???


this is awesome thank you very much i never knew =P

From: shade 45
how exactly do you expect win rar to do this???


this is awesome thank you very much i never knew =P

Well WinRaR is pretty powerful. It has very good compression like 23gb to 17gb or something like that. WinRar was made as a better safer alternative to WinZip…

If you're using it to free hard-drive space then you'd better do it BEFORE it gets full…

Incredibly good find though!

i tied this before and it slowed down my computer soo much i couldnt even use it and it took over 48 hours so i decided to just cancel it

~shut

This is Fucking AMAZING omfg thank you so much for sharing this
i cant belive the extent this program compresses the files now ill say goodbye to my 7 gb of programs !! xD

p.s:
I know the orignal post said that it doesnt work well with media BUT has anyone tested with large amount of music or videos/movies?…
thanks in advance

From: Vampsprio
This is Fucking AMAZING omfg thank you so much for sharing this
i cant belive the extent this program compresses the files now ill say goodbye to my 7 gb of programs !! xD

p.s:
I know the orignal post said that it doesnt work well with media BUT has anyone tested with large amount of music or videos/movies?…
thanks in advance

Why? You want to compress your porn vids?:p

-Tsn.

From: Shuttleu
:eek: OMFG i tried this and it worked
i had an 80 GB HDD which i filled with crap and shit and this compressed all of it down and now i have 60GB free
i never knew compression could be soo high
rep++ and i am going to rate this thread with 5 stars *****

~shut

From: Shuttleu
i tied this before and it slowed down my computer soo much i couldnt even use it and it took over 48 hours so i decided to just cancel it

~shut

First you say it works fine, then you say it fails :p

Love this.

From: the scar noob
Why? You want to compress your porn vids?:p

-Tsn.

OMFG how did you know hahah for that i give you + rep
;)

but yea it would be great if someone can test it with music though atleast :p

Wow i cant wait to use this. :)

Okay, I started to compress a folder arround 60 GB at 5 AM on 8/8/8.
A new window called "gwrap" opened, with a green status bar. now, 9/8/8, 9:30 PM the green bar is full (actually, it has been full for a day now i think) and in status it says "Running". Is this normal that it takes so long? And the program is running OK i guess, because i can still access to the Report tab. Pic below.

Shady?: How big is the file now? :)

From: Hy71194
Shady?: How big is the file now? :)

How could i know, it hasn't finished :S Or is there a way to know the size when the compression is still running?

"omfg Gay Name Lolz0rs"

okay iv been running this from : 09/08/08 12:25:00
till now… 10/08/2008 19:52:16 is that really normal its been atleast 19 hours…dammit and the file size from 7gb is currently…566mb …does anyone know if i can keep the files done so far in that archive IF i choose to cancel becuase i think this is taking waaaaaay too long :(

It works really well, but it takes a lot of CPU and time. (I have an Intel core2duo @ 1.73ghz, and it takes around 50% of my CPU, not sure if that's normal.)

I just use WinRAR and it works fine for me, free, quick, may not compress as much as this does, but I have 2 hard drives, never takes more than a minute, and it handles like 20 different types of compressed file types. Amazing job though, your next goal is to probably try pt speed this up and release it, very cool.

It may make the file alot smaller, but it will take a hell of a long time to unpack.

Nice Find man, will look into it further! +rep for you son!

Just what i needed :) I have to backup some files and i will use this app

I love you, now I can upload all my warez.. I mean Documents and actually have it under 200MB. :]

I remember this program, its pretty good, the problem is decompression takes a long time :S

From: MCR__ftw
I love you, now I can upload all my warez.. I mean Documents and actually have it under 200MB. :]

08-20-2008, 07:13 AM

Gravedig.

From: Laur€ns
08-20-2008, 07:13 AM

Gravedig.

Not really…

Thanks for this! I have a 55GB hard drive (Small, waah) and this program reduced my 7 backup folders (35GB alltogether :eek:) to something like 462MB.
Your a lifesaver! As soon as I find out how to rep+ i will. Yes I am a n00b.

Thanks for this, compressed my video collection of 34gb into smaller then 1gb :D

great tut, gave me back a LOT of room on my 60gp laptop… thx!

if it works realy its INCREDIBLE software/freeware, anyway… i try to download… and replay then i check it :P

Wow that's a long time lol. I don't think you should cancel it either. Cos if you do, it'll have to undo the changes and it will take just as long.

Damn, I wish I knew about this before I wiped my laptop.

Thanks for the program, it'll be very usefull for uploading.

thanks a lot, cant wait to try this out… but my internet is restricted to 64kbs at the moment so taking a while to download

WOW, I knew you could do something like this but at such a small size? wow. I am so trying this out. Thanks!

okay i might use this later i need to compress 24GB of stuff to move it to another computer, anyone know how long it will take roughly?

I would say 2-3 days. Since it took about 12 hours for a 4 gb file for me.
IMHO, dont bother, get a big USB stick, or move the HDD, copy off and move back. It will be much quicker.

~Spaz

The compression is pretty insane. However, compression time is pretty huge and unappealing, esp when you have an Ext. HD or other networked systems.

I wonder how Core i7's would fare…

this is some grate compresion only problem is the time it takes.:):(

Thats amazing, thanks alot :)

What you guys need to realize is that he used this on highly compressible media. I have no Idea what was in his my-documents but I would wager that it was a bunch of files with pretty much the same thing in them.

For most things, LZMA compression (7z) will be within about 5% of a PAQ compressed file. Plus have the benefit of fast decompression. (LZMA has a slow compression, fast decompression setup).

PAQ is the ultimate in lossless compression, their no doubt about that, however its biggest problem is that its compression time is just as long as its decompression time.

http://www.maximumcompression.com/data/summary_mf.php

The compression ratios of a random collection of files. LZMA has 72% compression ratio while PAC comes in around 80%.

From: freyyr
I doubt compression algorithms of that strength would work well. Most large files that you'd want compressed already have a significant amount of compression (Jpegs, Tarballs, Encoded Movies). While the large file benchmark (compressing 100 megabytes of wikipedia's text dump) may come out to 16 mb, other files that are already partially compressed will have less spectacular results.

I agree.

Dude, thats freaken awesome! i use zipped and rars to archive/compress my stuff but the ratio is 97%? thanks so much man, my hard drive is getting full with useless junk that i can compress =P

Thedetro125
Mad_Man2710
Big*

Handy. :D Compressing mah steamapps now. >_>

This is an awesome program, but as everyone said, it takes a long time and uses a lot of ram.

But if you're going to reformat you're computer and only have a small 2gb flash drive to put everything in, then this program is the way to go.

Now I realize what boberman was talking about. It's taken about 30 minutes to compress 40MB. Not good.

How is this helpful though.. like what do you use it for, and is it safe.. like does it mess up your files or somethin..

The compression rate depends on the files being compressed.

From what Ive seen KGB is the best archiving software, but with good compression comes loooong waits.

well just so you know i turned 800mb into 32 bytes :p

~shut

Does it really work? o.O, Can it turn 36Gb into something more transferable?

yes it will just take a very long time

~shut

Woo, finnaly can clean up some of my stuff i need but don't use on my computer :)

thanks that'll save me some space

4GB to 10MB, that is sweet!
If only there were ways to implement this into technology such as iPods and flash drives, much money could be saved. I'm sure one day it will be though.

cool its useful

oh man i needed a guide like this, i love you man (no homo)

From: Gearsnare
4GB to 10MB, that is sweet!
If only there were ways to implement this into technology such as iPods and flash drives, much money could be saved. I'm sure one day it will be though.

It could be, but it's just way too slow for them to use.

From: bullzeye95
It could be, but it's just way too slow for them to use.

Not to mention media (.mp3, .avi, .iso etc) is generally already quite compressed, so it won't make a big difference.

From: Wizzup?
Not to mention media (.mp3, .avi, .iso etc) is generally already quite compressed, so it won't make a big difference.

Well said. If this were to be put on an ipod, etc., it would make th ipod run very slow + it would compress more that 25% of the original size without altering sound quality if my calculations are right. This program is still very useful for reformating though. I wish I had this when I had to reformat my laptop. :duh:

Me and my terabytes of data have little use for this due to my extra space :D
I have 5.7TB of data and still 14.3TB of free-space on about 30 drives, so when I do have to reformat It doesn't take much to move the contents of that drive to another area, but thanks for this anyway!

How much did all that cost?! Send some spare drives to me!!! :D

THANK U SO MUCH…i needed this

EPIC.

Thanks!

This takes HOURS to compress you do know, and it takes even more to do the super compress shown. Also nice gravedig

From: cycrosism
This takes HOURS to compress you do know, and it takes even more to do the super compress shown. Also nice gravedig

Also, the new version that they have out doesnt even have the same options or anything.

I'm wondering how long compressing… 40gb worth of music and videos would take. I need to reformat, but only have a couple 16 or something gb sticks to use for storing it.

Do you got a computer in your "location" create a simple network set the options for file sharing to on and send your 40 GB to your fathers or some other PC in the network to that hard drive and then you have it back-upped.

From: Hermen
Do you got a computer in your "location" create a simple network set the options for file sharing to on and send your 40 GB to your fathers or some other PC in the network to that hard drive and then you have it back-upped.

I dont have another computer with 40gb of free space, I'm on our only decent computer