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I recommend installing 7zip even if you never use the 7z format archives. It's just so much faster than the built-in .zip file handling in Windows. (Which is not as stupid-slow in Win7 as Vista and XP, but still not great.) And its implementation of DEFLATE has higher compression than zlib.


7zip also handles RAR format which, suprisingly, probably the #2 format extension out there behind zip.


always used winrar. never missed any format. i see no reason to abandon it for 7zip

winrar has the best integration with the windows shell (by that i mean sane context menus)


Best reason for me has always been that WinRAR is shareware and 7-zip is OSS.




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