What is the difference between .gzip and .wim?
- Extension
- .gzip
- .wim
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Disk Image
- Developer
- GNU
- Microsoft
- Description
- A compressed file format associated with GNU Zip (Gzip) that uses the DEFLATE compression algorithm, a combination of both the Huffman coding and the Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) codec.
- It is a file-based disk image format created by Microsoft for its latest Windows OS releases, Windows Server 2008 and the Windows Vista. Windows Imaging Format (wim), is used for the standard installation method of the OS.
- MIME Type
- application/x-gzip
- application/x-ms-wim
- Wikipedia
- .gzip on Wikipedia
- .wim on Wikipedia