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Making 7-Zip even smaller

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bensnowclark
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Making 7-Zip even smaller

Don't know if this has been brought up before but if you want to lose a ton of space then delete all the txt files in the Lang folder leaving only the language you use and the en.ttt. This will save about 840K*. If you want to lose even more then use 7-Zip from the authors website and combine it with the Codecs and Formats folders along with 7z.exe, 7zG.exe, 7zFM.exe and 7-zip.dll from the PortableApps.com version overwriting as you go, delete the excess txt files in the root folder (you've still got them in the original zip after all) and you can have 7-Zip down to just 1.11MB in 38 files compared to 2.30MB* in 120 files!

Hope this helps all of you out there who are experimenting with small drives, it's amazing what you can fit onto 32MB when you put your mind to it! Possibly these are ideas that could be incorporated into the 7-Zip page here, saving over a meg of space is a big deal on a small drive after all...

* = Actually 762K and 2.08MB respectively but they take up the quoted amount of file space.