Re: Best Vista Setup for Development - Karl Peterson?

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:46:10 -0700, "Karl E. Peterson" <karl@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
in <u9n4JhRgHHA.3388@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Stefan Berglund <sorry.no.koolaid@xxxxxx> wrote:
I'll try that. But starting out with over 10 GB, I'm sure I did something
wrong to start with.

I don't think so. The swapfile alone is huge. That sounds about where mine
started, as well. The steps above cut it about in half, then WinZip took another
~50% cut.

And if get yourself a copy of WinRAR you can make it even smaller. :-)

I'd definitely be interested in that. I found CABARC would shrink the VHDs by about
10% more than WinZip (maximum/portable), but that it blew chunks on files >2Gb.
Does WinRAR handle XXL files?

Assuming by XXL you mean eXtra eXtra Large, then I'd say yes.

I haven't actually tried that myself but their web site says:

WinRAR supports files and archives up to 8,589 billion gigabytes in
size. The number of archived files is, for all practical purposes,
unlimited.

You can try it before you buy it and it's licensed in perpetuity. I use
it on a daily basis to archive downloads and I also use it for version
control.

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Stefan Berglund
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