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Similar to this question except, I need it to run with minimal CPU on the background? Also, if there's a 7zip solution that will be nice.

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When you are zipping up in the GUI with 7zip you can simply hit the background button which reduces the CPU priority (8 to 4 or IDLE) of the process. You can hit the button again to toggle to the foreground. There are some screen grabs to illustrate here.

If you are looking to do this from the command line or scripted, you can do this by using start /low /wait command to similarly start a command (and wait for it to return before moving on) which again only runs when the system is IDLE.

Finally, if you are using powershell, check out this answer over on ServerFault.

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