Is Winzip Okay?

[Made In Canada]

I know its a basic question but it gets the point across, so to be more specific, i mean is it filled with viruses these days, has anyone had recent experience with it etc.

[Fetzie]

2 minutes ago, Made In Canada said:

I know its a basic question but it gets the point across, so to be more specific, i mean is it filled with viruses these days, has anyone had recent experience with it etc.

Recent versions don't allow you to skip registering a licence after 30 days; I haven't used anything other than 7-Zip on Windows for years.

[Samfisher]

Just now, Julian2000nl said:

Use WinRAR.

Win64: http://rarlab.com/rar/winrar-x64-520.exe

Win32: http://rarlab.com/rar/wrar520.exe

 

Just close the dialog "your license has been expired"

Use 7-zip.

[manikyath]

i prefer 7-zip personally, for its simplicity, built in benchmark, and that -for me- it seems to be doing .tar.gz better than winrar.

 

as for winzip... IMO its a dated piece of software.

[Made In Canada]

8 minutes ago, Fetzie said:

Recent versions don't allow you to skip registering a licence after 30 days; I haven't used anything other than 7-Zip on Windows for years.

 

7 minutes ago, Samfisher said:

Use 7-zip.

 

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

i prefer 7-zip personally, for its simplicity, built in benchmark, and that -for me- it seems to be doing .tar.gz better than winrar.

 

as for winzip... IMO its a dated piece of software.

sorry to ask, but is there official website 7zip.org? i only ask because i get a bunch of random sites that all claim to be a download for 7-zip. 

[manikyath]

3 minutes ago, Made In Canada said:

 

 

sorry to ask, but is there official website 7zip.org? i only ask because i get a bunch of random sites that all claim to be a download for 7-zip. 

yup. at the very bottom the official site has the copyright of the 7zip dev btw

[Droidbot]

Can vouch for 7-zip, quick and free

[LAwLz]

This is the official website.

Direct download links:

32bit version

64bit version

 

Benefits of 7-zip:

Free and open source.

Faster than WinRAR and 7zip in most formats.

Supports more formats (although it does not support writing RAR files which WinRAR does, but it does support reading them).

 

 

By the way, you want to use 7zFM.exe when opening things. The FM stands for "file manager", which will look very similar to WinRAR. 7z.exe and 7zG.exe are meant to be run from a command line, which I am fairly sure you won't do very often.

[Made In Canada]

16 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

This is the official website.

Direct download links:

32bit version

64bit version

 

Benefits of 7-zip:

Free and open source.

Faster than WinRAR and 7zip in most formats.

Supports more formats (although it does not support writing RAR files which WinRAR does, but it does support reading them).

 

 

By the way, you want to use 7zFM.exe when opening things. The FM stands for "file manager", which will look very similar to WinRAR. 7z.exe and 7zG.exe are meant to be run from a command line, which I am fairly sure you won't do very often.

Thanks for the info, but all i am doing is going to open a file and then probably uninstall it. however, for future, now i know where to go.

[hegemott]

On 3/26/2016 at 3:46 PM, Made In Canada said:

Thanks for the info, but all i am doing is going to open a file and then probably uninstall it. however, for future, now i know where to go.

There's also standard zip support in most operating systems. Not sure what file you were trying to open?