winzip

[Maguile]

since when do you have to pay for this? Are there any alternate programs?

[Artemicon]

winrar and 7zip, I personally use 7zip.

[SephYuyX]

You dont have to pay, it has a pay version just like winrar. And use 7zip.

[chiyio]

already been said, but 7zip is the correct answer here.

[Deadgye]

Why does anybody use anything other than winrar?

[chiyio]

Why does anybody use anything other than winrar?

Because 7zip is MUCH better. The real question is why is anybody still using winrar?

[Hosom]

I prefer 7zip because I don't like any application which installs 'toolbars' or any other adware. Subscription services are kind of lame too.

[Maguile]

thanks youz guyz

[bungiefan]

I use WinRAR as a backup because sometimes 7zip insists a file can't be decompressed while WinRAR will successfully extract it. 7zip works better most of the time though.

[Deadgye]

Because 7zip is MUCH better. The real question is why is anybody still using winrar?

Googling 7zip, it says:

Supported formats:
* Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
* Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z.

Doesn't this mean it can't create .rar files? Compression seems to be close enough to the same between 7z and rar for me to not care. But compression time on rar seems to be better from the 7 seconds of googling I did, but I guess that could be wrong.

[Pikarya]

7Zip is fine, Winrar also if you didn't pay for it.