Looking for a good ZIP program

[TKE248]

you can zip files in other formats with 7zip not sure if you will get the same great compression

tar, zip, 7zip formats

another great feature is you can add
a password and encrypt file names
also you can split files into multiple sections if needed

 

[Velocity-Spaz]

Yea get WinRAR

 

[TheMajor]

WinRAR will un-7-zip .7zip files.

 

[EricB]

WinRAR will un-7-zip .7zip files.

Yeah and they are the only zipping program that I know that can unzip .cab files.

this is useful so when you install a new program you won't those extracted file scattered all over your computer

 

[TheMajor]

Here's the files supported by WinRAR:

Compress:
.zip
.rar

Decompress:
.rar
.zip
.cab
.arj
.lzh
.ace
.7-zip
.tar
.gzip
.uue
.bz2
.jar
.iso
.z

Another very good (de)compression utility is WinACE. Much better and more options than WinZIP, as well.

 

[talldude123]

i found a un-zip tool called "FreeZip". It does the exact same as winrar and winzip, its just FREE!

 

[EricB]

i found a un-zip tool called "FreeZip". It does the exact same as winrar and winzip, its just FREE!

whenever winrar is in a good mode. it's free. sometimes they distribute it as freeware, sometime shareware