WinZip or WinRar?

Discussion in 'Application Software' started by mydigitallifeforum, Aug 22, 2010.

  1. samba_siva_raju

    samba_siva_raju MDL Novice

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    In fact I have installed 5 extractors (WinZip, WinRAR, 7-zip, Al-Zip, Universal Extractor) at a time. I don't see any conflicts while using multiple extractors on same PC. WinRAR is good one if you are going for paid one or stick to 7-zip.
     
  2. blackranger

    blackranger MDL Senior Member

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    i use 7-zip.
    7-zip can unpack exe and many compressed file formats.
    i dont know whether RAR or the rest can do this, but i like 7-zip's gui.
    and its compression rate is quite high
     
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  3. randomboy

    randomboy MDL Junior Member

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    I have winrar 3.91 winzip 14.5 and 7zip . I find that winzip is easier to use than all three esp if creating password protected or sfx files. Win rar is good at extracting diff forms of split fies. 7 zip I feel compresses the files most but is most difficult to use and the slowest.
     
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  4. blackranger

    blackranger MDL Senior Member

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    does anyone know can RAR and Corel WinZip split files like MDF into mdf.001 and mdf.002?
    'coz I'm using 7-zip and it can do that, there're guys in other forums asking how to split a MDF file, but most of the replies are about to compress MDF into RAR and then split the RAR. But with 7-zip, I can simply split the MDF.

    that's why I like 7-zip but yes I think it's quite slow in compressing. However I don agree it is the most difficult to use. :confused:
     
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  5. randomboy

    randomboy MDL Junior Member

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    Why not use program such as HJSplit for it.(personally never had to split a file that I did not want compressed also so cannot comment on this function of 7zip)
     
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  6. blackranger

    blackranger MDL Senior Member

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    Oh it looks bad, in terms of the interface. That's why freeware is usually not as good as shareware.
     
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  7. mrthuvi

    mrthuvi MDL Member

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    Use File splitter and joiner. It has a nice gui.
     
  8. antman67

    antman67 MDL Novice

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    WinRar is more stable and has never given me a problem. WinZip does not unzip everything and sometimes has issue unzipping something that was zipped using Winrar for some reason? Little flaky
     
  9. amanda

    amanda MDL Member

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    Winrar allways.
     
  10. blues_bleu

    blues_bleu MDL Novice

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    how about winace?? anyone any ideal??
     
  11. flare4000

    flare4000 MDL Senior Member

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    7-zip all the way! Winrar is good but not free.
     
  12. gamepoint

    gamepoint MDL Senior Member

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    7zip...free n excellent compression ratio
     
  13. Matrix Leader

    Matrix Leader MDL Addicted

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    Winzip is the best hands down
     
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  14. zetitres

    zetitres MDL Member

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    Used winrar for years. Started with 7-zip when reading here about it, at present do not feel I will switch back to winrar.:)
     
  15. Stannieman

    Stannieman MDL Guru

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    #35 Stannieman, Nov 7, 2010
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    I only work with cab files if it has something to do with microsoft installers or updates. Then I use winrar to extract and microsoft's makecab or cabarc to create a new archive

    Just did a quick test with a random 95.6MB folder (which contains other archives, plain text files etc). Winrar compressed to 87.1MB (best compression and solid, without recovery file), winzip compressed to 87.7MB with legacy zip and 88.1MB with new "better zipx". And than 7zip with ultra compression compressed to.... 39.5MB. But I've noticed that with big files like isos there is little difference.

    But I stick with winrar until 7zip is able to store recovery info like winrar does, this saved a lot of iso's that got corrupted due to bad ram.
     
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  16. jasqid

    jasqid MDL Member

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    I like and have been using for the last 3 or 4 years... powerarchiver.
     
  17. Tito

    Tito Super Mod / Adviser
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    Thats also true for me....... a happy 7-zip user.. :D
     
  18. WhiteZero

    WhiteZero MDL Junior Member

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    Anyone who would take WinZip over 7Zip is really just a fool.
    Not like it matters, WinZip is part of Windows now anyway.

    7-Zip has so many other users other than normal every-day compression and extraction that makes it a must-have tool for any power user.
     
  19. Lich King

    Lich King MDL Addicted

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    WinRAR is simple and easy to use..
     
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  20. inuit

    inuit MDL Novice

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    #40 inuit, Nov 11, 2010
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    Winrar 3/93 yes, and the keycode algorithm is weak / a picture to explain

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