Best Program used to compress files

[Scubar]

WinRAR everytime.

[playsafe]

I use WinZip.

But to split the compressed file into manageable peices I used WinRaR. Now this functionality is now avaialable in WinZip as well.

[Guest WebMadman]

UHARC is a high compression multimedia archiver.

It has a better compression ratio than ZIP, RAR, ACE, etc...

Go to

http://www.klaimsoft.com/winuha/

and WinRAR

[T D]

PowerArchiver... does ANYONE use XP's in build zipfldrs.dll???

[DigeratiPrime]

well I use WinRAR because I am used to making silent SFX files with it. And I like the cascaded context menu.

However I usually use 7zip when I just want to compress something or share a file.

For best compression I think KGB, but its very intense and slow

http://kgbarchiver.sourceforge.net/

[Camarade_Tux]

PowerArchiver... does ANYONE use XP's in build zipfldrs.dll???

Hum, nlite -> remove components -> Zip Folders ?

Recently, on a freshly installed computer I used that to extract some drivers.

No, in fact, I started, waited 1 or 2 minutes, thought it was definitely too slow, opened IE, went to 7-zip.org, downloaded 7-Zip, installed 7-zip, cancelled the zipfldrs.dll extraction, which was not yet at 20%, extracted with 7-Zip in less than 2 seconds.

Specs : P4 D920 (always in Everest Ultimate Edition's top 5), 2Go RAM, 300Go RAID-0 Array.

It's a possibility zipfldrs.dll doesn't like multi-processors systems but this would be incredible and also ridiculous.

[Shindo_Hikaru]

Winrar all the way, was a winzip user but started running into rar files, so i switched.

[XP-is-a-CRAP]

"Best Program used to compress files"

7-ZIP.

Also useful: PKWARE2.50 (DOS), TUNZ (DOS), KZIP, INFO-ZIP.

[WBHoenig]

gzip or bzip2, via the *n*x command line

Or on Windows, I use WinRAR. Close second. And 7z is a pretty close third.

Edited December 5, 2006 by WBHoenig

[awergh]

tugzip yay, winrar is ok better than winzip, i still use winimp as well which supports creating folder trees

[N1K]

WinRAR..

[cluberti]

Since I deal with 2GB+ memory dump files daily, I switched to WinRAR when it could compress a 4GB dump to 85MB, and WinZip could achieve about 700MB - 1GB on it's best compression settings for the same files. I .CAB things when I'm looking for compatibility across Windows boxes (XP and up), but WinRAR when I want a file compressed to upload to me.

[jcarle]

WinRAR... is there really any other way?

[nitroshift]

Winrar

[Jaqie Fox]

I never found one I truly liked until I tried WinRAR back in the day (version 1.xxx something).

So I finally bought (rare thing for me to do) winrar 3.41 and still use it constantly.