7-zip For Windows

[Steven9088 0]

The main features of 7-Zip
* High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
* Supported formats:
o Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
o Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS
* For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
* Self-extracting capability for 7z format
* Integration with Windows Shell
* Powerful File Manager
* Powerful command line version
* Plugin for FAR Manager
* Localizations for 63 languages

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Edited September 6, 2007 by Steven9088 (see edit history)

[skedad 0]

I have used 7-zip for a huge project I was working on. It is pretty reliable, although the procedure of folder searching and going back and forth a lot made it less user friendly than I liked. But I did like that it did what was needed. I really am not one for messing with tar after playing around in Linux... but if I were to mesh Linux and Windows together again, I would sure use it.I guess I can say that, yes, I have used it, but thought I would have tons more to say about it!

[turbopowerdmaxsteel 0]

7 zip is one of the best compression algorithms out there. It has even beaten the RAR format. It does take a lot of time to compress but that is a price one must pay for higher compression ratios. It is said to be hyper-threading friendly but I have found Win RAR to be faster when compressing the same set of files in the same format. Also, it lacks the Recovery record feature which exists in Win RAR.

[ethergeek 0]

7zip is nice primarily because it does everything that WinRAR does (for most people) and more, all for free. Also, you can package 7-zip with a Linux distribution, since it's GPL licensed...you can't do that with unrar.

[HellFire121 0]

I only have the command line version of 7-zip pretty much because i only use powerarchiver as my multi purpose program for handling archives. I find it a fast and useful utility for what i need it for though, i have a lot of small programs that reguarly need updating and the update utility needs the functionality of 7-zip to unzip specific archives.It's snuggled away somewhere in my program files so i can still carry away using powerarchiver like i have nothing else installed.For all purposes that i have used it though it's simple and fast.-HellFire

[yordan 10]

I love the portable version of 7zip because it does not need to be installed on the Windows machine.So, I have on my USB flashdisk, and I use it in order to unrar on computers which don't have winrar installed, or in order to zip on computer which don't have winzip installed.

[Quatrux 4]

For a long time I am using 7-zip as my main archiver, the only thing as I know it can't do is compress as .rar so I don't compress it in that format, the main thing I can decompress it though I used to use the console version with batch scripting, but nevertheless I really like the GUI version, it is simple and it can do everything I need.. For very big files or folders/directories having lots of data to compress with .7z takes a long time, another thing is that not everyone can decompress .7z so I usually like to use the normal .zip if I don't want a better ratio for something, I don't like waiting when the compression will be over.. In fact for files I don't use frequently I just .tar them and leave them somewhere in Storage on my HDD, due to a lot of small files takes more space then one normal big file.

[wutske 0]

I've only used it once or twice, only to find out it's just a tad better than winrar. The biggest downside is that most people can't open it, most people don't even know 7zip. Winrar is a lot better, more people know it and more people can use it, that's why I prefer it for sending or storing big files.Zip is quick 'n dirty for sending a lot of smaller files, I use it more like a container that holds a lot of small files (sending 1 files through MSN or sending 100 files ... hmmmm )

[silverdown 0]

I use 7zip more then any other zipping program. I also use the u3 flash disk portable one as well. Very nice

[Blaise 0]

The only reason why I have 7-zip installed is because I use some software that is only distributed with 7zip. Otherwise I don't really use it. It's a good free program, but it's just not widespread enough.