Serious Discussion Do You Think WinRAR Have Any Benefits Over 7-Zip?

[Divine_Barakah]

The only thing I hate about 7-Zip is that it is not digitally signed.

 

[lokamoka820]

The only thing I hate about 7-Zip is that it is not digitally signed.

And not having a nice looking icons and interface.

 

[Wrecker4923]

Can you give more details about this feature, because I don't understand what it means?

When you compress a file, in the Backup tab, click on "Keep previous file versions", and it will add the flle, renaming the same file already in the .rar file with a number appended. In effect, keeping previous versions of the file.

For example, add 1.txt; if one already exists in 1.rar, there will now be "1.txt" and "1.txt;01" in the rar file. Cheap and easy versioning control.

 

[Trident]

I’m surprised to see archivers offering such deep features. I only ever use archive when I need to send more than one file… never thought about these features.

 

[Gangelo]

Looking forward to the day that Explorer will be able to handle ALL popular compression formats without the need for 3rd party software.

 

[Trident]

Looking forward to the day that Explorer will be able to handle ALL popular compression formats without the need for 3rd party software.

Don’t worry, MacOS can’t either…

 

[WhiteMouse]

The icon from WinRAR stands out from other software, when I look at Explorer, I notice immediately which folder is compressed and which is not.

 

[CyberDevil]

PeaZip offers a great interface for 7zip. It's strange that no one has mentioned it. I don't understand why you would buy an archiver. The only one I might consider buying is bandizip.

 

[Divine_Barakah]

PeaZip offers a great interface for 7zip. It's strange that no one has mentioned it. I don't understand why you would buy an archiver. The only one I might consider buying is bandizip.

I have used it for a long time, but gave up on it bc it is not signed and it got detected (FPs) numerous times.

It is a great app.

 

[CyberDevil]

I have used it for a long time, but gave up on it bc it is not signed and it got detected (FPs) numerous times.

Honestly, I would rather change the antivirus. It's not normal if it only reacts to the fact that it doesn't have a signature. May I ask what you are using? At the very least you can usually just send a sample to a lab to be added to the whitelist.

 

[Divine_Barakah]

Honestly, I would rather change the antivirus. It's not normal if it only reacts to the fact that it doesn't have a signature. May I ask what you are using? At the very least you can usually just send a sample to a lab to be added to the whitelist.

At the time it was detected by Bullguard and Dr Web. Dr Web whitelisted it immediately, while Bullguard took ages. BTW, I find it unacceptable for a programme not to be signed in this age.

 

[bitsper2nd]

Looking forward to the day that Explorer will be able to handle ALL popular compression formats without the need for 3rd party software.

Explorer on the latest Windows 11 can extract tar, rar, and 7z files. It just can't create(compress) rar files. There is a third-party software called TC4Shell that enables support for compression formats.

 

[simmerskool]

PeaZip offers a great interface for 7zip. It's strange that no one has mentioned it. I don't understand why you would buy an archiver. The only one I might consider buying is bandizip.

someone here (MT) mentioned PeaZip not too long ago, and I installed it, but haven't used it enough to have an opinion other than it seems to work.

 

[lokamoka820]

I noticed something interesting in WinRAR, it shoes archives first over other files which makes you find them easily if you test a lot of portable software like me, here is a comparison between 7-Zip and WinRAR when I open my downloads' folder on both of them: