KGB Archiver 2

This is my first post after a long vacation. Today the article is based on a software review.
This is about a utility that allows us to compress and decompress files with a high  compression ratio. Basically when we consider about compressed files and decompressed files, compression of files gives us some benefits. They are,

• Easy to upload to the internet and email them to your family members,colleagues etc.
• When uploaded to file hosting sites or web pages it takes up a only small fraction of disk space from the server computers.
• A number of files could be clustered together as one file.
• Saves disk space of our own computer. ( It will be handy for those who have low hard disk space.)

      (Tell me if you know some more benefits and I would be glad to add them.) 

In my experience there are two soft wares  which gives us high compression ratios.

1. UHARC - A software programmed by Uwe Herklotz.A CMD(command)version as well as a GUI (Graphical User Interface) version is also released after onwards.
2. KGB Archiver

Every compressed file should be extracted to retrieve the files it contains within it. For these some soft wares are there according to the type of compressed file. The most common types of soft wares are shown below with the corresponding extensions.

1. KGB Archiver        - .kgb
2. 7 Zip                      - .7zip
3. Winrar                   - .zip or .rar  
4. UHARC                 - .uha

Interface of KGB Archiver 2

Among these Winrar is used commonly. KGB archiver is also a powerful tool used for compression as well as decompression.This tool is programmed by Thomasz Pawlak using C++ programming language. This software uses a special type of algorithm to compress files. To compress it takes 75% of the RAM thus slows down the PC so much. This utility allows to create  SFX (SelF eXtracting) archives which as the name implies extracts itself when executed and doesn't need any software to open it.

Recently I had  an experience of this extremely powerful tool that is I recently downloaded the most popular collection series of GTA that is SAN ANDREAS which was a file of only 64kb with an extension of .kgb which is compressed by KGB Archiver. So I launch the KGB Archiver and was extremely surprised of the file because I saw that the compressed file was actually 680 Mb. I couldn't believe my eyes. Not only this the unbelievably thing in my whole life was when i tried to decompress it took me 5,000,000 + hours for extracting it so I had to abort it finally.

In my opinion it is unwise to run it on a computer in which the required hardware configuration is minimum.This software mainly depends on the RAM. Without more RAM, this software is useless. In my case I had faced this situation. It might even crash your computer.

          Recommended hardware requirements :

•  Processor   -  3.0 Quad Core
•  Ram            - 1+  Gb

Here are few screen shots taken from the software.

Option given when compressing.

Compressing a folder.

Amount of memory consumption.

Compressing a file using PAQ 2 algorithm.

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