Soldato
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Why not just use the right menu options? Right click on rar > Extract....
I've not seen a nag screen in years.
Winrar - any decent free alternatives?
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Why not just use the right menu options? Right click on rar > Extract....
I've not seen a nag screen in years.
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Nor me, just set the default to Extract to Folder.
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The annoying popup that tell you to go buy it every time you open a file, only if you are using the free version of course.
Another vote for 7zip here.
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7Zip
You don't need to open Winrar to extract a .rar Just right click and click extract here
Correct, but then if you are creating archives .7z is a better option anyway.
Well.... I suppose there might be some situations where filetype is validated and .7z would get rejected in situations where .rar is accepted. But generally speaking we should be trying to promote the use of .7z as it has decent compression and is freeware.
Nanozip is one to watch too, only in alpha right now but is a better compressor than 7zip ultra and already has a (very basic!) windows GUI.
Nanozip is one to watch too, only in alpha right now but is a better compressor than 7zip ultra and already has a (very basic!) windows GUI.
If you're just going to only ever decompress archieves then WinRAR would be fine. Just use the right-click context menu likes others have said. I've personally used it for years and haven't come across any limitations as of yet.
7zip is good though and does have better compression. I'd probably be using it but I've just become too accustomed to using WinRAR. A few others I've used that were good were WinAce and ZipCentral.
7zip is good though and does have better compression. I'd probably be using it but I've just become too accustomed to using WinRAR. A few others I've used that were good were WinAce and ZipCentral.
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Have recently converted to 7zip from WinRAR and I have to say I'm very pleased I have, free and great compression.
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I've got both. Used Winrar initially then downloaded 7zip when I wanted to unpack a .7z
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WinRAR does both?
Does it? Must have downloaded for some other reason then
I must admit, I always use Winrar and it's rare that I come across a 7z file.Are there speed differences between 32 and 64?