7 Zip?

[time gear]

i keep seeing topics that say you need win-rar to unzip files, but i have 7 zip that unzips them and its free. im not trying to make a point, im just saying that you can unzip things without paying for win-rar.
AND 7 zip unzip's rar files! all that for free. so why do people say you need win-rar?

 

[Sky Ninja]

Yeah, but WinRAR is slightly errored. It just tells you to pay, but never actually forces you to.

 

[time gear]

yah but i had to get my comp fixed because of win-rar (cough-vista-cough) but with 7 zip you dont even need to open a window you just right click and choose extract with 7 zip or extract here.

 

[Princess Plushima]

Winrar does that too.

As far as I care, the difference between Winrar and other unzipping software is pure taste. It's not like with browsers where one is clearly better than the other.

 

[Torgo]

This doesn't exactly pertain to srb2 so moved here. I do like using 7-zip. The compression is pretty good it sometimes can be smaller then rar. Its also nice that it can zip smaller files then the default windows extraction tool.

 

[Sky Ninja]

Yeah, I use 7zip on my other comp, but on my old one it usually can't allocate enough memory. :/
It can sometimes, but most of the time it can't. 7zip and WinRAR are prety much the same, except 7Zip can zip smaller and is generally a little cleaner. They can both compile self extracting EXEs, they are both backwards compatable, and both have a simple interface. I like WinRAR's comment system and virus scanner. I also like the repair option.

 

[Sniperific]

I use 7z as im just plain use to it, the only time it let me down is when it deleted my college work but that's a different story....

 

[sonicfreak94]

I use both. WinRar is OK for compression, but 7zip does a better job. I like WinRar though because .rar is a popular format now-a-days.

 

[MechaAshura]

Use 7-zip for all rar/zip needs

like i do

 

[Espyo]

7Zip is definitely a good choice to have has a zipping/unzipping software. Gets the job done fast and easy. And I believe I saw somewhere, a file zipped in 7z format... When I unzipped, the total of the files inside was near 32 MB *jaw drops*. It must have been my imagination, but nonetheless, 7Zip sometimes compresses stuff at about 7 times more than a zip compressing (hence the name).

 

[Project S.O.L.A.R.I.S.]

7-zip is a very useful unzipping application to use when extracting files from RAR files, such as downloading mmorpg's, opening wad packs, and disecting wad files to their basic components. =|

 

[JigglyWiggly]

yah but i had to get my comp fixed because of win-rar (cough-vista-cough) but with 7 zip you dont even need to open a window you just right click and choose extract with 7 zip or extract here.

Right, Vista broke your computer. I love ignorant people, it makes me want to slice my face on a cheese grater.

 

[Conic]

Right, Vista broke your computer. I love ignorant people, it makes me want to slice my face on a cheese grater.

Look more closely at this:

yah but i had to get my comp fixed because of win-rar

comp fixed because of win-rar

because of win-rar

win-rar

He's saying Win-RAR doesn't work well with Vista. Not that Vista broke his computer, although I can see that happening. Remember Windows ME? I bet that was your favorite.

 

[Blitzzo]

WinRAR actually lets me specify a default extraction folder (a habit I acquired from using WinZip), and it also supports just about all the major formats (ZIP, RAR, 7Z, LZH, TAR, etc.). I haven't really seen any other programs that can claim to do both of those things.