7-Zip 9.20 Reviews

Benefits:

7-zip archives were up to 40 percent smaller then their ZIP equivalents, although compression did take longer, and the highest compression settings can hog system resources. Advanced options include the ability to create solid and self-extracting archives, and to adjust the compression level and password protection.

supported formats: Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR; Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z. For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip.

System Requirements:

7-Zip works in 32-bit MS Windows (95/98), 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP), All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP),Win2K, WinXP. There is a port of the command line version to Linux/Unix.

Setup:

7-zip is a freeware that you can download it freely. Click the Download button to begin downloading. After you download the file, you may need to double-click the file if installation does not start automatically.

Interface:

The main interface is overly simple and looks like it was designed for Windows 95, it's not hard to use and fairly self-explanatory. The context menu options, which include "testing" an archive, indicate that 7-Zip should be taken seriously.

Conclusion:

7-Zip is best all in one tool for zip files. It can create TAR and GZ archives, which are commonly used on Unix and Linux systems and provide a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip.

A very good file archiver with highest compression ratio
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
What's new in 7-Zip 16:
- 7-Zip now supports files that are larger than 8 GB in TAR archives.
- NSIS support was improved.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localizations: Hindi, Gujarati, Sanskrit.

What's new in 7-zip 9.15:
- WIM support was improved. 7-Zip now can create WIM archives without compression. Please check the compatibility between 7-Zip and Windows for WIM archives.
7-Zip 9.15 now can work in Windows 7. Command line version of 7-Zip can be used in Linux via Wine program.7-Zip is the free file archiver with the highest compression ratio.

Usually 7-Zip compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format. And 7-Zip compresses to zip format 2-10% better than other zip compatible programs.

Main features of 7-Zip: