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Reduce the space taken up by games and programs on disk by using native Windows APIs

3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 2 comments · first 2017-12-18 · latest 2018-07-01

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  1. …of transparent mechanic from within the OS (e.g. filesystem or compact.exe/CompactGUI [1]). [1] https://github.com/ImminentFate/CompactGUI
    comment by Fnoord · 2018-07-01 · in DjVu, an open PDF alternative
  2. …that it is also based on 7-Zip. The one tool that I did find useful during this search though is https://github.com/ImminentFate/CompactGUI . Apparently in Win10, Microsoft introduced a compact.exe commandline tool that transparently…
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    CompactGUI – Reduce size of progs on disk without performance loss (windows 10)
    story by kerv · 2017-12-18 · 0 comments