7-Zip
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
What is 7-Zip?
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
The main features of 7-Zip
High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression Supported formats: Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z. For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats Self-extracting capability for 7z format Integration with Windows Shell Powerful File Manager Powerful command line version Plugin for FAR Manager Localizations for 87 languages
7-Zip works in Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP / 2012 / 2008 / 2003 / 2000 / NT. There is a port of the command line version to Linux/Unix and macOS.
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Comments and Reviews
Tags
- File Manager
- Encryption
- archive-manager
- unzip
- archive-extractors
- zip
- archive-managers
- archive-management
- archiving
- archiver
- File Encryption
- rar
- archive-extractor
- unpack
- file-utilities
- tar
- decompression
It handles dozens of formats (included RAR5), it got also a stable x64 version, and the compression time (or rate) improves with every release. I love it!
To be clear, it can decompress RAR files, but not create them.
Reply written ago
Much better than standard Zip for compression. If you compress plain text files such as HTML use the PPMd method rather than standard LZMA, which is better suited to other file types.
No recovery/parity. There needs to be improvements for long term archiving.
Open Source, what's else?
Much preferred over WinRAR as it doesn't complain you haven't given it money. Beginner users can still use 7-Zip, but advanced users with get much more out of it.
Mandatory application, thanks for the good job!
Slow and not the best results