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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Executable Compressor Programs
« on: January 12, 2006, 01:25 PM »
Jibz makes a very good point (as always), there is much more to consider than size alone. Personally with all of the computing power available today, size is not an issue, compatibility is key. I used UPX for a long time and it really is a great util, but from the release of Visual Studio 2003 onwards it started having compatibility issues with certain executables that were not easily resolved. These days I use PECompact simply because it is fully featured, stable and has great support from the author. That being said, as any common sense you have may say, avoid compressing or releasing anything with the alpha/beta releases. :D