WinRAR

Developed by a Russian Eugene Roshal, WinRAR is way ahead of its competitors by providing support on multiple OS platforms. Its unique features such as Data Redundency, Recovery of Damaged File Archives, SFX and 128-bit encryption make it one of the most needed file archiver software.

WinZip

WinZip has plenty of features for compressing you files with superior security. You can use WinZip with the Wizard interface or with the classic interface, use its flexible Drag & Drop support, which enables automatic compression and decompression.

7-Zip

I think 7-zip is quite fast. I like that is freeware, and simple too, nevertheless maybe there is some details I would like to change in the User Interface (icons above all, but also in the location of some options...). Download it now from the Internet!

IZArc

IZArc 3.81 is an archive utility that supports most archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO.

Pdf995

Pdf995 Suite is the free way to access to creation, edition and encryption of pdf files. It's not exactly free though. You can choose between the sponsored version and the really affordable registered version. The Pdf995 Suite consists of three main modules: the pdf995 printer driver; the pdfEdit995 and the Signature995.

PowerArchiver

This award winning utility is a commercial alternative to classic compression utilities. It provides support for virtually all popular compression formats. It’s powerful, easy to use, versatile and even has a nice interface. You can compress and decompress most archives using the same program.

WinMerge

WinMerge is a tool for visual difference display and merging, for both files and directories. Unicode support. Flexible syntax coloring editor. Windows Shell integration. Regexp filtering. Side-by-side line diff. Highlights differences inside lines.

ZipGenius

ZipGenius 6 is a very useful compress/uncompress tool for Windows and Linus. As zip/unzip tool, is a very powerful utility: it supports many compression formats (more than 20 compressed archive formats), and it shows all the compressed archive information. For compressed files, it offers the possibility of extracting one by one or all the files to a given folder, reload the list, etc.

WinZip Self-Extractor

Moreover this mode of file distribution allows the end user to decompress these files by simple double clicking without the help of any other unzip tool or knowledge of using unzip tool. With AES encryption support you can create self extracting files in two different strengths 128-bit AES and 256-bit AES.

WinAce Archiver

WinAce Archiver is a shareware compression tool that offers a wide selection of options. The application can encrypt or decrypt compressed files, or do all the encryption before compressing files using UUEncode, XXEncode or Base 64. It also can rename, execute or edit files. The software can also test and repair the compressed files (ACE and ZIP files).

TUGZip

TUGZip is a very strong freeware utility for archiving with Windows, which provides support for a large range of encoded, compressed, and disc-images files. It also includes very powerful features in a very easy-to-use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.

ALZip

A clean and nice interface and pretty icons with the cute figure of an egg with big eyes and feet are the first things you'll see after installation. This mighty program handles 36 archive and compression formats. It's able to create self-extracting archives and spanned archives over 2600 volumes. Now it also opens ISO and BIN formats.

jZip

Many options are available when it comes to file compression and archiving, for example WinRAR, WinZip, 7-Zip… The jZip – developed by Discordia Ltd. – is one more option to take into account and deserves our attention due to its effectiveness, ease of use and freeware license. This tool is based on the well known 7-zip archiving technology developed by Igor Pavlov.

ExtractNow

ExtractNow is a simple utility that allows you to extract multiple files quickly and easily.

Universal Extractor

Universal Extractor is an application designed to extract files from any archive. It doesn't matter if it is a ZIP a RAR or any other kind of archive. One good thing about this application, besides the fact that it is universal by nature, is that it is really compact, which makes it accessible and easy to use. You can even use this app to extract files from MSI installation packages.

Compressor WinRAR

Compressor WinRAR 3.71 is a powerful file archiver for Windows. It can process RAR and ZIP files, unpacks 7Z, ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LZH, TAR, UUE and Z. It performs strong compression, volumes, encryption, self-extracting modules and backup facilities.

PeaZip

PeaZip is an freeware file archiver. It supports its native PEA archive format (featuring compression, splitting and flexible authenticated encryption) and other mainstream formats, with especial focus on handling open formats.

Quick Zip

QuickZip is a FREE utility to manage compressed files. With this program you can open, extract and create the most common compressed archives including ZIP, RAR and 7z. QuickZip is a FREE alternative to WinZip, WinRAR and PowerArchiver. Although its interface is not the paradigm of beauty, QuickZip is powerful, full featured and has lots of tools like Search in Archive, Archive Finder, etc.

WinZip E-Mail Companion

WinZip E-Mail Companion makes it easy to compress your e-mail attachments, saving transmission time and disk space for both the sender and recipient. Attachments containing confidential information can be protected with password-based AES encryption.

StuffIt

StuffIt 12.0.0.17 is a file compression utility for Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Vista. This utility compresses files into smaller ones, to ease file sending through the Internet. The main screen has three tabs, Start, Archives and Search. It can even compress .zip files into even smaller files.

RarZilla Free Unrar

If you’re looking for an extremely easy to use application to decompress RAR files, you’ve just found it. RarZilla is a single window application with no buttons whatsoever. This tool but that is freeware licensed and you can change its skin. Several skins files are available on the Phillip Winterberg’s web site

AutoUnpack

AutoUnpack 4.5 is a tool intended to automate steps of the unpacking process of compressed files downloaded from the web. It also helps to repair such files while being unpacked. AutoUnpack 4.5 can be easily configured to perform at its best with the users’ desired settings, like commanding the program to remove the source file after the unpack process is complete.

BitZipper

Want a ZIP utility that matches your level of experience? The intuitive interfaces are easy to use and designed for fast results. BitZipper's integral support for almost all file types means that this one tool will open most compressed files.

Zipeg

Zipeg is a freeware using which, you can instantly and simply compress and decompress files, folders, and entire folder trees to save storage space. It provides a very user-friendly interface which provides features like, extracting a file by simply dragging them, control over the destination of the extracted files, opening of nested archives and other similar features.

RAR Recovery Toolbox

RAR Recovery Toolbox is a powerful tool that allows you to recover files from corrupted RAR archives. This incredible program scans the archive, detects the data structure and tries to recover as much information from the corrupted file as possible.