WinZip or WinRar?

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

  1. Alphawaves

    Alphawaves Super Moderator/Developer
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    1: 7zip
    2: winrar
    Love em both
    Alfa:);)
     
  2. acid29

    acid29 MDL Novice

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    7-zip is simpler and extracts almost anything even exe files

    It is open source too

    Try beta version for updates
     
  3. WhiteZero

    WhiteZero MDL Junior Member

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    If the exe file is one of those self-extractors, yeah.
     
  4. timesurfer

    timesurfer MDL Developer

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  5. DARKOR04

    DARKOR04 MDL Tester/Developer

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    I use WinZip 15 Pro for compression ratio
    and use WinRAR for SFX, No issues about payment cause I *cough*Reverse Engineered them*cough*
     
  6. timesurfer

    timesurfer MDL Developer

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    I thought Winrar was free unless you paid them :p...lol Actually IR4 was SFX until 3.0 when we got all code into one .ahk file
     
  7. DARKOR04

    DARKOR04 MDL Tester/Developer

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    WinRAR its free only for 40Days...
     
  8. timesurfer

    timesurfer MDL Developer

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    Yea I know I was kidding :rolleyes:
     
  9. WhiteZero

    WhiteZero MDL Junior Member

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    Why? 7zip has a better ratio.
     
  10. Deb_Rider

    Deb_Rider MDL Senior Member

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    Just a patch and 40 days becomes infinite....
     
  11. Reign_Of_Freedom

    Reign_Of_Freedom MDL Expert

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    This is old news kinda, but WinRar 4.0 is available. Decent update to the 3.93. WinRar for me over winzip.
     
  12. urie

    urie Moderator
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    WinRAR 4.0 is only beta at the moment as for winzip neverused it since i started using WinRAR years ago :)
     
  13. seyamco

    seyamco MDL Novice

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    Yes WinZip Is The best
     
  14. XDye

    XDye MDL Novice

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    None of them. 7-Zip 9.20

    But WinRar is not bad
    WinZip sucks
     
  15. urie

    urie Moderator
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    You need to pay for Winzip also.
     
  16. ccuappz

    ccuappz MDL Junior Member

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  17. fdjc

    fdjc MDL Member

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    WinRAR, best out there, fastest and easy to use in my personal experience.

    7zip in work seems ok too I guess for a freebie.

    IDK if winzip and 7zip have the option to create a set of rars though, like dividing an 800mb file into 16 x 50mb archives as not used them to that extent just yet.