What is the difference between .wim and .tar?
- Extension
- .wim
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Other
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Description
- 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.
- Tar archive created by tar, a Unix-based utility used to package files together; contains multiple files stored in an uncompressed format; commonly compressed into a .GZ file using GNU Zip compression.
- MIME Type
- application/x-ms-wim
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .wim on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia