Zipping Programs Created 18 years ago2006-09-08 18:42:22 UTC by a

Does anybody know where i can download a free compressing program taht zips files? preferably a link with no virii, worms, trojans or other computer ailments

Winzip

WinRAR is waiiiiiii better, in my opinion.

WinRAR is waiiiiiii better, in my opinion.

Agreed.

You can find it here.

Winzip is better when zipping very large files.

WinRar is slow when zipping very large files, also known to freeze.

but WinRar is better when zipping small files, yes.

Just use WinZip for zips and WinRar for rars. SRSLY how hard could it be?
7zip wins, anyway.

I guess I wasn't really thinking about the speed of it, I just don't like having a new program for every task. WinRAR works with ZIP files, RAR files, and a ton of others, so I see little need to have both programs.

I prefer Winace. I don't know if it's better then winZIP and winRAR in compressing files but it can create and open so many kinds of archives, including .ace .rar .7zip and .zip

As for compressing, it's good, maybe very good. If you want it just to compress .rmf/.vmf .map and .bsp files then it's the best. It compresses a 10mb .rmf to an approximetly 0.5mb zip.

You can get it in here. It says that winace is a shareware but I had it for a year already, thats far beyhond the elaluation period.

http://www.7-zip.org/

7-Zip will do everything you need. (apart from crappy .ace that won't release their code )

Free Free Freeeee!

Get it now.

btw - 7z compression rules. Better than RAR or ZIP or even .tar.bz2

Why would anyone need a zip program when it's built-in for Windows XP?

I only have WinRAR because the archive format is not supported by Windows. There really isnt' any reason to get another program.

Because the one built into XP sucks balls.

Really, it does.

I admit that I normally use the built in Windows XP zip program for most of my zipping needs, as there isn't much need for another program if you're just unzipping stuff. However, if you zip stuff a lot, you'll probably want more options than WinXP has (actually, it doesn't have ANY.)

Ive grown quite fond of 7zip recently, but for most intents and purposes I use either inbuilt XP zip or Winzip. Winrar is a buggy pos.

I've used UltimateZip for atleast a year now, never really had any problems with it.

I use WinRAR, but while I'm here, does anyone know of a good proggie that does 7zip, RAR and ZIP (and by that I mean opening, creating and extracting)?

As far as I know you can get away with just Winrar and 7zip... but not all three in one..

Yeah.

Windows comes with it's own integrated compression thing. it makes zip files

.7z is the greatest compression I have ever seen