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I tried to compress the World of Warcraft Free Trial so that i can i can send it to my brother but when i ctrl+click it and choose Compress it only makes it a bit smaller. From 3.16Gb to 3.1Gb. Am i doing something wrong?
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yea... If you right clicked on the file and selected 'ccompress...' that is all it will do...

you will never get that small enough to email it...


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I tried to compress the World of Warcraft Free Trial so that i can i can send it to my brother but when i ctrl+click it and choose Compress it only makes it a bit smaller. From 3.16Gb to 3.1Gb. Am i doing something wrong?
It is probably already compressed!

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You will get better results with RAR compression

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