Best Free Archive(Zip,Rar,Exe,etc) Manager for Your Need Instead of Winrar

7zip tool

Attaching files into one archive(Zipped) is very useful as we can make multiple files into one file and compress them. Zipping files is crying needed when we need to transfer mini files or send them via mail or upload them on a P2P file sharing site. There are many archiving tools to manage zipped files such as  *.rar, *.zip, *.jar, *.exe, *.tar etc.




Out of different types of zipping and compressing tools, my first choose is 7Zip.
7-zip is an open source file archiver designed for windows. It's unofficial command line version is also available for Linux. 7-zip is actively developed by Igor Pavlov. It was the winner of sourceforge.net 2007 community choice awards for 'technical design' and for 'best project.

7-zip archive manager

7-zip has many features including following:

1. Support for the 256-bit AES cipher.

2. High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression

3. 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.

4. For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip.

5. Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats.

6. Self-extracting capability for 7z format.

7. Integration with Windows Shell.

8. Powerful File Manager.

9. Powerful command line version.

10. Plugin for FAR Manager.

11. Localizations for 74 languages.

If you want to know all archiving to on the world, then visit 7zip.com .

Download 7-Zip from 7-zip.org.

I always recommend my friends to use it. But if you still have some problems, You can use winrar.