Which Program you love the most to compress and decompress the files and folders

In honesty, I use WinZip, WinRar abd WinAce.....

But WinAce I feel has the best compression.

WinRAR has the best "feel" for me.

7-zip will give you better compression though. The only downside - the Ultra settings requires 512MB of RAM on your system, otherwise, you'll end up sitting there for about 2 hours to compress a 10MB archive.

I use Winrar, but Stuffit is good too

WinRAR 3.50 beta 7 with RARaddin theme here

Hi,

i vote for tar and bz2 in combination, because of:

*) It's Free and Open-Source

*) It compresses relativley good

*) You can create archives fully compatible with most unix systems

Egon

www.7-zip.org

Cab Tool (Found on this forum)

winrar all the way.

winrar for the past 3-4 years. but will switch to 7zip as son as they improve the gui and make some other (smaller) fixes

Used to use winrar, but got sick of the stupid reminders to go to full version. I dont like to pay for my computer software. So i just went with IZArk. I found it to be even better then winrar.

I use winimp but no one else has ever heard of it.

was using quickzip, now changed to tugzip.

What i did find out today, for those who care about compression and not speed, is that uharc 0.6a compresses better than lzma compression in 7-zip.

I have seen many people say that 7zip has the best compression, but they forget to take some things into consideration when doing a comparison.

Set 7-zip to ultra compresion, and it uses 32MB dictionary and 64 bit word as standard. The reason for the high compression is the dictionary size.

if you dont think im right then try uharc with the same dictionary size

uharc a -d2 -m3 -md32768 -b64 -mm+ -r+ -y+ <source files>

and it should come out slightly better in compression levels.

I voted 7zip.

256 dictionairy size. max for 7zip but my single core Atlohn 1100 - with just over 300 SDram: dies on it.

Use it with an athlon 64FX (HTT bit enabled), and 1gb ram and it will kick the hell out of winzip or winrar,

Strong point:

It uses litle memory to extract,

Realy high compression,

Open Source (and free as well),

Weak points:

Compression takes about twice as mutch (resources) as others.

Its Interface looks like sh*t.

It doesn't auto-register itselfe with archives,

It still hasn't got the Self-extracting archive things right (to get working commands after extraction) - you nead a weird work-around to make those...

Edited December 15, 200520 yr by -I-

Winrar....