KGB Archiver is the compression tool with unbelievable high compression
rate. It surpasses even such efficient compression tool like 7zip and
UHARC in terms of the abilities. KGB Archiver uses AES-256 encryption to
encrypt archives.
Features
Operating System
System requirements
1: Select compress file .Click on next .
2: Add file or Add directory ,then click on next.
KGB Archiver is not your regular file compressor. It makes all the
difference in the world, size-wise, because it can create the tinniest
archives. This is due to the fact that its compression rate is amazing,
almost unique in its software category.
This small and seemingly plain software is extremely powerful, and it
could easily surpass other products of its kind (when it comes to
compression size, not speed).
Archives can be made in either KGB or ZIP format, and compression level
can be set from minimal to maximum (with a lot of options in between).
Plus, you can secure them by assigning a password, no matter which
compression level you choose.
For example, we compressed a file of 1.2MB at maximum level. The process
took 30 seconds, and the result weighed 366,5KB. Large file take a lot
more than that, obviously. So, yes, KBG Archiver is powerful, but it
also takes long time for maximum compression level.
During compression, KGB Archiver displays the progress, together with
the current size versus the projected size and the remaining time. This
information is also available in a little window that pops up if you
move the mouse over the application icon in the system tray.
KGB Archiver also places shortcuts in the Explorer context menu, but you
can make that disappear from the Options window of the application.
In conclusion, KGB Archiver is willing to cut down your archives in
size, but at the price of a long waiting time for very large files.
Considering that it can drastically make a difference, the costs are not
that high.
History
KGB Archiver is a file archiver and data compression utility based on the PAQ6 compression algorithm.
Written in Microsoft Visual C++ by Tomasz Pawlak, KGB Archiver is
designed to achieve a very high compression ratio. As a consequence, the
program is relatively memory and CPU intensive.
KGB Archiver is free and open source software released under the terms
of the GNU General Public License. Version 2 beta 2 is available for
Microsoft Windows and a command line version of KGB Archiver 1.0 is
available for Unix-like operating systems. KGB Archiver is one of the
few applications that works with the PAQ algorithm for making its KGB
files. It has ten levels of compression, from very weak to maximum, a
greater variety than that found in most other compression software.
However, at higher compression levels, the time required to compress a
file increases significantly. The official website is now offline.
Features
- Supports native .kgb files and .zip files
- AES-256 encryption
- It is able to create self-extracting archives
- Unicode is supported in both the user interface and filesystems
Multilanguage support (including Arabic, German, Greek, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, and Ukrainian) - An Explorer shell extension is available for the Windows versions.
Operating System
- Windows 2K / XP / 2003 / Vista / Vista 64 bit / 7 / 7 64 bit
System requirements
- The minimum requirements for running KGB Archiver are:
- 256 MB RAM
- 1.5 GHz processor
- Explorer shell extension
- Multilanguage support
- Up to 8% faster compression/decompression
- Now SFX archives run on any Windows or under WINE on Linux
- Lots of crashes fixed
1: Select compress file .Click on next .
2: Add file or Add directory ,then click on next.