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WinRAR is a very powerful file archiver & data compression utility ever developed. It is available as a shareware for almost every operating sytem that is available whether it be Windows, Free BSD, Mac or Linux. As the name suggest it natively creates compressed RAR files which is a much better compression format as compared to the popular ZIP format.
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WinZip is a good tool to obtain file compressions. WinZip has special features to compress, this program compact files through archives or zip files, what is this? Well, zip files are archives used for storing and distributing files and these can contain 1 or more files.
WinZip has a feature called Wizard, which will take you through the entire program, helping you to compress wisely.
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7-Zip, an Open Source application distributed under the GNU LGPL, is a powerful compression manager with with support for virtually all compression formats, including 7z . It is easy to use and offers a flexible working environment. Probably, one of the best alternatives in file compression software.
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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.
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ALZip is another file compression utility, but not quite the same as other programs of the kind out there. To start with, ALZip is free, it handles over 30 compression formats, including ISO, plus it is twice as fast extracting files as WinZip. Among other useful features, the program also includes a password recovery tool.
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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.
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PDF995 is the fast, affordable way to create professional-quality documents in the popular PDF file format. Its easy-to-use interface allows you to create PDF files by simply selecting the "print" command from any application, creating documents which can be viewed on any computer with a PDF viewer.
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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.
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Win-Ace is a great tool to use if you're looking for a compression that deflates your files in a high speed but leaves plenty of air in the compressed file. You can depend on this tool to be your only archiver you need as it's different from the other archiving shells, with its own strong compression format and built in support for other well known files such as (ZIP, RAR, MS-CAB).
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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.
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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.
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Filzip is a FREE file compression utility for Windows. You can use it to compress your book collection in an single package or to extract the archives you download from the web. Filezip supports opening and extracting archives of the following formats: ZIP, BH, CAB, JAR, LHA,TAR, GZIP, ACE, ARC, ARJ, RAR, ZOO, UUE and XXE. And it can create ZIP, BH, CAB, JAR, LHA,TAR and GZIP archives.
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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.
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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.
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KGB Archiver is the most powerful file compressor known, which can handle zip files, in addition to its own format, KGB. It has an interface that works as a wizard, adds its options to the Windows Explorer, and shows the statistics after compressing / decompressing.
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PeaZip 2.4 is a file and archive manager.
This great tool compresses and uncompresses different formats. It can create files in 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, PAQ/LPAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, ZIP file formats and also can open ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG, ISO, LHA, RAR, UDF, etc; It supports to open 79 file extensions.
PeaZip works in 32 and 64 bit Windows (9X/2000/XP/Vista) and Linux platforms.
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PPTminimizer 4.0 is an amazing tool used by many professionals to dramatically reduce the size of Microsoft PowerPoint and Word documents by up to 98% without reducing the quality or requiring any decompressing tools. The tool has add-ons for Microsoft Word and PowerPoint and a beautiful search window for batch compressing.
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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.
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RAR Repair Tool is an application that can help you deal with corrupted files. It only works with RAR files. These files are transmitted and stored for long periods of times, and it is not rare for them to get corrupted or damaged. RAR Repair Tool allows you to recover files stored in corrupted RAR files.
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Brazilian file compressor. Has many interesting features like backup scripts (automated file compression, you can set up 2 output directories, really handy), package builder and more. Unfortunately, doesn't work on Microsoft Windows Vista.
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BitZipper is an advanced data compression utility for Windows users. It has a user-friendly interface with highly advanced features that will satisfy both novice and advance users. It supports almost all compression and encoding formats, so users will not find any difficulty handling files compressed with other compression utilities.
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Djvu is software for compressing images that helps in transferring the documents to the web very easily and in a fast way without compromising on its quality because normally files containing the images are of very large size and the speed of downloading or uploading is limited.
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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
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It is simply a Zip reader as its name said. It can only uncompress the zipped files. You can not use this utility to compress your favorite and important files. But it is very useful, because you can uncompress any compressed file just by double click on it, therefore it will save your lots of time if you regularly uncompress a large number of files.
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In our days almost every file we work with that has graphics, complex formats, images, etc., will exceed the size limits to send these files to different recipients into an email service. WinZip E-Mail Companion 2.0 it’s a software that will help you to avoid the action of the e-mail returned, because the attachment exceeded the size limit. You will never get an e-mail returned anymore!
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