
Support for Unicode to display international characters. RAR(part1.rar, r01), ACE, AES, ALZ, APK, ARJ, BH, BIN, BZ, BZ2, CAB, EGG, GZ, J2J, JAR, IMG, IPA, ISZ, LHA, LZMA, PMA, TBZ, TBZ2, TGZ, TLZ, TXZ, UDF, WAR, WIM, XPI, XZ, and Z. It has a very fast Zip algorithm for compression & extraction with Fast Drag and Drop, High-Speed Archiving, and Multi-core compression. Bandizipīandizip is a lightweight, fast and free All-In-One Zip Archiver. It works in all versions of Windows with the support of both 32-bit and 64-bit editions. Self-extracting capability for 7z format. Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats. For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip. Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z. Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM. High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression. There is no need to pay or register to use 7-Zip. It’s an open source software that you can run on any computer, even in a commercial environment. Obviously, 7-Zip is one of the best ones and arguably the most popular one on the market. There are plenty alternatives out there that you can choose from but here are 3 of them that are not only free but also feature-rich and do get the job done nicely. WinZip is the first one on the market that offers more with compressing files but it’s not free and has its own limitations as well.
Windows has built-in Zip folder called Compressed Folder but offers very limited capabilities and it’s not user-friendly at all to use.