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WinZip vs WinRar

17 Responses (Add) | Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 at 3:45pm


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http://live.pirillo.com/ - Chris answers the question "what do you use to decompress files, WinZip or WinRar?"

The answers Chris provides may surprise you.

Winzip is a popular decompression utility:

WinZip, the original and most popular compression utility for Windows, is a powerful and easy-to-use tool that quickly zips and unzips your files to conserve disk space and greatly reduce e-mail transmission time. WinZip 11.1 is available as Standard or Pro. WinZip 11.1 is an updated version of our most recent major release—WinZip 11.0—that supports Windows Vista™.

WinRar is also very popular, offering support for many more formats than WinZip:

WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. You may try WinRAR before buy, its trial version is available in downloads.

So, what does Chris use for file decompression and why? Well, you’re going to have to watch to find out!

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WinZip vs. WinRAR

22 Responses (Add) | Thursday, May 4th, 2006 at 8:14pm

I'm not usually passionate enough to stir up the debate, but Ed Bott started it this morning with his Corel completes destruction of WinZip post. Like Ed, I've been a WinZip user for years - since Windows 3.1. I appreciated that my initial registration fee would apply to all subsequent versions - until the most recent version. Then, the world started to distribute RAR files, and WinZip was all like “WTF?” and I was all like “Yeah, it's another compression format.” If you only have enough room for one compressed file manager, WinRAR should be it.
On this machine, I have both WinZIP and WinRAR installed - but the next PC will only have WinRAR. It does everything WinZip does - and does it faster. I still don't like the WinRAR interface as much as WinZip, but at least WinRAR is skinnable. WinRAR's nag isn't as naggy, either (although I've registered it so I don't see that anyway). And if that doesn't win you over, remember that WinRAR can read and extract from ISO file. In fact, I don't think that (in practice) I've ever had a time when WinRAR couldn't unpack a file for me. Face it, folks - WinZip is dead.

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Flash Video (.flv) Travis Kalanick on File Sharing with RedSwoosh Chris Reviews the Canon Powershot S2 IS ID3 Tag Your MP3 to Play Andrew Baum of Pinnacle on Mobile Media Manager FireWire vs USB 2.0 WinZip vs WinRar The Desktop Linux Summit Wrapup Free Audio Program Windows Home Server at CES 2007 Tom Huntington Talks DivX [IMG]

IT 6-15 hr3 - Into Tomorrow with Dave Graveline - vidblogcast

November 30th, 1999
at 12:00am

Flash Video (.flv) Travis Kalanick on File Sharing with RedSwoosh Chris Reviews the Canon Powershot S2 IS ID3 Tag Your MP3 to Play Andrew Baum of Pinnacle on Mobile Media Manager FireWire vs USB 2.0 WinZip vs WinRar The Desktop Linux Summit Wrapup Free Audio Program Windows Home Server at CES 2007 Tom Huntington Talks DivX [IMG]

Cris DeRaud

May 17th, 2007
at 4:40am

Winrar is the hands-down winner.

Cris DeRaud

May 17th, 2007
at 4:40am

Winrar is the hands-down winner.

Betty

May 17th, 2007
at 6:24am

Have you tried 7zip? It’s free from 7zip.org and can open both .zip and .rar files. I recommend it to people who are looking to open the ocassional compressed file but who don’t need anything powerful nor do they need to create compressed files. It’s a great solution for the casual user.

Betty

May 17th, 2007
at 6:24am

Have you tried 7zip? It’s free from 7zip.org and can open both .zip and .rar files. I recommend it to people who are looking to open the ocassional compressed file but who don’t need anything powerful nor do they need to create compressed files. It’s a great solution for the casual user.

Bill

May 17th, 2007
at 10:40am

WinZip. WinZip 11.0 has a new best compression option that gets better compression than WinRAR and it can also open and extract from RAR files. Plus the zip file format is not proprietary so in a few years when something else comes out and RAR fades away, there will still be companies making zip programs allowing me to access my stuff

Bill

May 17th, 2007
at 10:40am

WinZip. WinZip 11.0 has a new best compression option that gets better compression than WinRAR and it can also open and extract from RAR files. Plus the zip file format is not proprietary so in a few years when something else comes out and RAR fades away, there will still be companies making zip programs allowing me to access my stuff

Alvin Brinson

May 17th, 2007
at 11:04am

I’ve tried 7zip, and honestly, if you want something FREE as in BEER, then 7zip is your solution. However, it is slower than winrar in my experience, and the interface can be a bit clunky. When I’m unzipping/unrarring a lot of files, WinRar is much easier to navigate through - so it is WinRar for me. All you have to do is learn to let the nag screen pop up BEFORE you start doing anything if you’re into using the keyboard much. There is a slight delay before the nag comes up with WinRar that makes it much more of a nag than similar screens, since it isn’t as easy to just close it as soon as you launch the program.

Alvin Brinson

May 17th, 2007
at 11:04am

I’ve tried 7zip, and honestly, if you want something FREE as in BEER, then 7zip is your solution. However, it is slower than winrar in my experience, and the interface can be a bit clunky. When I’m unzipping/unrarring a lot of files, WinRar is much easier to navigate through - so it is WinRar for me. All you have to do is learn to let the nag screen pop up BEFORE you start doing anything if you’re into using the keyboard much. There is a slight delay before the nag comes up with WinRar that makes it much more of a nag than similar screens, since it isn’t as easy to just close it as soon as you launch the program.

d00msay3r3

May 17th, 2007
at 1:07pm

I use IZarc. Free download, no spy, or nagware. As powerful, and closely resembling winrar. http://www.izarc.org/

d00msay3r3

May 17th, 2007
at 1:07pm

I use IZarc. Free download, no spy, or nagware. As powerful, and closely resembling winrar. http://www.izarc.org/

Shane Petersen

May 17th, 2007
at 1:13pm

I have tried many archive programs. WinZip, 7zip, ZipGenius, IZArc, and a few others that are not worth mentioning. My favorite out of these is IZArc. It is 100% freeware and you can get it here: http://www.izarc.org/. It claims to be the Ultimate Archive Utility. I don’t know about that but I do like it the best out of all the archive utilities I have used. Check it out and reply with your comments of it.

Shane Petersen

May 17th, 2007
at 1:13pm

I have tried many archive programs. WinZip, 7zip, ZipGenius, IZArc, and a few others that are not worth mentioning. My favorite out of these is IZArc. It is 100% freeware and you can get it here: http://www.izarc.org/. It claims to be the Ultimate Archive Utility. I don’t know about that but I do like it the best out of all the archive utilities I have used. Check it out and reply with your comments of it.

Wm Stanley

December 2nd, 2007
at 10:56am

I am testing Both Winzip and WinRar - Each has features I like, but each compresses some files the other cannot read. So until I have a program that can read and repair the other, I shall have to use both. The Checkout feature in WZ is great and the WR has protection tools that are vital. But look for yourself.

Wm

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