Comments on: Quick Zip File Compressor & Extractor (Free WinZip Alternative)

By: Gee

Gee — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:31:12 +0000

Yep go 7zip or even Bitser

By: silentcon

silentcon — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:17:08 +0000

7-zip is better, free, OSS, no ads, simple GUI, and powerful.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:39:24 +0000

I have been using peazip for years and found it more than adequate for my requirements

By: Aibek

Aibek — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:44:13 +0000

I use 7zip as well, not sure if it’s faster or has better compress ration than ZipItFree but it surely supports more file types.

By: Womble

Womble — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:56:46 +0000

I think you should have qualified your post with a little rationale but I wouldn’t be so rude to call it a waste of time :)

By: JK the Fifth

JK the Fifth — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:44:20 +0000

No offense, but Winzip is dead. The only people I know who use WinZip are computer illiterate Pirates. (What I mean is that they do not pay for it, of course) Winzip has poor compression ratio, compared to 7zip’s 7z format. I don’t understand why would anyone pay for such a program, or even pirate such a program, when there are a lot of better, free programs available.

Here is a splendid comparison of archiving tools : http://www.donationcoder.com/Reviews/Archive/ArchiveTools/index.html

By: X

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:43:37 +0000

That GUI looks horrible in my opinion.

By: Ernesto Quezada

Ernesto Quezada — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:50:47 +0000

cool!
I didn’t know about either ZipItFree nor 7-zip (which I read about in the comments), both look good. So far I had used really crappy ones (or paid) to pack/unpack .TAR files, these two options come in handy :)

cheers!

By: CY

CY — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:08:39 +0000

Most importantly, 7-zip has the highest compression ratio…!

By: Doc

Doc — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:47:42 +0000

I too prefer IZArc, no annoying ads, looks better than 7-Zip; as I do archiving AND unarchiving, handles dozens of archive types, converts RAR to ZIP (and between several other types as well)…only thing missing is creating RAR archives (which RAR Labs has decreed ONLY THEIR PRODUCT CAN DO! – obnoxious!). Still haven’t found anything better IMHO.

By: moklet

moklet — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:43:33 +0000

I think this was a useless post and a waste of time to open it

By: nyne

nyne — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 03:52:18 +0000

7zip is nice, as is izarc but ive much preferred jzip as of lately, just a nice frontend for 7zip

By: Ibrahim

Ibrahim — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:49:23 +0000

I am the 5th 7-Zip user and find it quite adequate for my needs. I could not, at first, understand what you were up to saying WinZip is the only great app when there are quite a few powerful free or open source programs.

With WinRAR (non-free) probably being the best and 7-Zip close on its heels, here I am firing away a few other free ones – the first 5 are the greats: PeaZip, IZArc, TUGZip, Filzip, ZipGenius Standard Edition, KGB Archiver, Quick Zip, CAM UnZip, ZipWiz 2005 5.0, JustZIPit, AutoUnpack, RarMonkey, RarZilla Free Unrar, ExtractNow, The Extractor, WinShrink, ZipCentral, Free PDF Compressor, Zip Pro, TyphoonZip, jZip and DropZip 1.

Other ones which either produce excutibles, installer/uninstaller or self-extractor files are: Zip Self-Extractor Creator 1, Chilkat ZIP 2 Secure EXE 1.0 and ZipInstaller 1.21.

If I add file splitters/file joiners like Hj-Split, GSplit, or FFSJ — I should be able to split and archive my large files by breaking them up into self-extracting pieces.

By: Evan

Evan — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:03:47 +0000

I use IZArc which is completely free to use, no ads or anything (and the UI is just a little better than 7-Zip IMO.)

By: Sean Vater

Sean Vater — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:17:34 +0000

I too use 7-Zip and see no reason to change now….