Comparison WinRar or 7Zip? What's your favourite?

[voyes]

Which Program do you use? Which is your favourite?

 

[shukla44]

Always winrar. The best. Have lifetime license won in a giveaway so no annoying evaluation period msg.

 

[Local Host]

I use 7-zip, because it is free, but I like the way WinRAR creates SFX archive, I miss that feature. As for Peazip, I did not like something about it.

Why you miss a feature 7-Zip has? SFX.

 

[Captain Awesome]

I personally use 7Zip.

 

[TairikuOkami]

Why you miss a feature 7-Zip has? SFX.

WinRAR has more options, like where to unpack SFX, run a program afterwards and etc. In 7-zip, I have to pre-create folders, it is pretty annoying.

 

[R2D2]

Only 7zip. WinRAR and Winzip are redundant in my opinion.

 

[17410742]

Only 7-zip - Free & no fluff - in the past when ive tested all 3, it compresses far greater than both WinZip & Winrar. (massively if using their own compression format)

 

[Steven Brown]

I'm going for Winrar, and I'm also personally using winrar I never used 7zip

 

[Dhruv2193]

Both are good. Winrar is paid and 7-zip is free. I am currently using 7-zip.

 

[Evjl's Rain]

I admit 7zip is better and faster at compression/extraction but I choose Winrar because of its better usability

You can use ctrl-C and crtl-V in winrar but not in 7z
we can run an app with multiple files and database directly in winrar. Winrar will extract the whole folder while 7z only extracts 1 file => make that program crash

However, now I'm using bandizip which supports zone.identifier => compatible with windows smartscreen

 

[CyberTech]

Always use Winrar since i was kid..

 

[erreale]

Bandizip.

 

[shmu26]

I use another program called Bandizip.
Update - Bandizip now keeps "Mark of the Web" information for extracted files

+1

 

[Iapepe]

I use both 7zip and winrar.

 

[bayasdev]

7Zip because is free and fast.

 

[ng4ever]

Both.

 

[Hollow]

Always winrar for extracting files on online
And 7z for personal use

 

[ForgottenSeer 58943]

Winrar. 7zip has had too many issues.

I paid for Winrar after using it for a decade.

 

[maximus]

I use PowerArchiver and 7zip

 

[SumTingWong]

7zip

 

[Thales]

7zip it is cross platform and works great.