Freeware alternative to WinRAR?

7zip

i made these icons for it..

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http://bleddyn.co.uk/creations/IconsBlack.7z
http://bleddyn.co.uk/creations/IconsNormal.7z

create a folder 'Icons' in the dir for 7zip

extract the contents of whichever version you want to that folder, then either run 32.reg or 64.reg depending on whether you're using 32bit or 64bit windows.



**if you're on 64bit windows, install 64bit 7zip.

run this after setting it 7zip to default to the filetypes, in the Tools, Options menu

i used to have an automated patcher, but until a 64bit commandline freeware resource editor comes out, have to use this reg method :)
 
Tugzip - Freeware

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# Supports ZIP, 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, BH, BZ2, CAB, CPIO, DEB, GCA, GZ, IMP, JAR, LHA (LZH), LIB, RAR, RPM, SQX, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TAZ, YZ1 and ZOO archives.
# Supports BIN, C2D, IMG, ISO and NRG disc-images.
# Support for external plugins.
# Windows® shell integration, for example drag & drop, shell context menu and drop handlers.
# Create 7-ZIP, BH, BZ2, CAB, JAR, LHA (LZH), SQX, TAR, TGZ, YZ1 and ZIP archives.
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Download it here
 
I switched to 7 zip last night taking some getting used to after all these years of winrar but I guess it's better than the nag buy pop up you have to close on winrar after a while.
 
IZarc is my favorate
Full Windows Vista compatible!

IZArc is the best freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO. With a modern easy-to-use interface, IZArc provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools. It allows you to drag and drop files from and to Windows Explorer, create and extract archives directly in Windows Explorer, create multiple archives spanning disks, creating self-extracting archives, repair damaged zip archives, converting from one archive type to another, view and write comments and many more. IZArc has also build-in multilanguage support.

With IZArc you can open CD image files like ISO, BIN, CDI and NRG. It is also possible to convert such files from one type to another (BIN to ISO, NRG to ISO).

If you need to send large files to your colleagues, friends or customers who may not have archiving tool you can easily create self-extracting archive that can be extracted by simple double click.

IZArc can be configured to run your preferred Anti-Virus scanner when you open any archives.

IZArc supports 256-bit AES encryption to secure your data.

IZArc is integrated in Windows so you can perform all archiving operations by using right-click menus in Windows Explorer.

If you have broken archives IZArc can help you to repair them with ease.

IZArc is 100% virus free and it doesn't contain any spyware or adware.

IZArc is the most complete archive utility available today.
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Supports 47 Archive Types

http://www.izarc.org/
 
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7Zip again.

Although the 7z format offers greater compression I tend to use ZIP for compatibility. Plus 7Zip is one of the few x64 compatible archivers, and the only free one that has context-sensitive features.
 
7-Zip.

It's actually faster than WinRAR at extracting RAR archives. Only problems with it are the error messages for multi-part archives don't tend to indicate which part is damaged/missing. It also can't repair damaged RAR archives which have the recovery record.

As cjmUK says, there is also a native x64 version of 7-Zip which improves speed further.
 
Another vote for 7-Zip, as said already having a native 64bit version is great, I don't see why you'd need anything else.
 
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