Below is a wonderful little zip utility that I have been using at home and at work. It's called 7 Zip by 7-zip.org. It's open source – FREE! 7 zip The main feature that I like is the fact that it shows up when I right clicked on a zip file, it allows me to unzip to a folder or in the current folder location. And it can also open the archive inside a GUI. It can handle reading of a lot of different archive formats like ZIP, RAR, ISO, and ARJ. Listed below are some of the main features:
- High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
- Supported formats:
- Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
- Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, MSI, WIM, 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
- 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 69 languages
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