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JohnDoe
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I personally don't care what anyone else uses, as long as they like what they use and it gets the job done.| James Butts wrote on Wed, 14 May 2008 15:20 |
Okay fine, I might as well throw in what I have to say, winzip/rar suck, they are overpriced and they aren't as good as 7zip, 7zip as my favorite, because it does everything I need it to do, and is free, it also is quick and easy to use
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Strong opinions need strong evidence.
WinZip:
From my experience in school, WinZip was an excellent tool for teachers that could be integrated with their e-mail clients with ease. It has a powerful UI for the everyday person. My grievance with it is that while it's fine for most people, it doesn't cover all of the bases for me and others like me who use more than just zip files. Another thing I don't like about WinZip is that WinZip Computing Inc. is owned by Corel Corporation. Some stupid teacher I had many years ago believed that WordPerfect was the future and Microsoft would eventually bow down to Corel, which is why I had to endure two years of using Corel crapware. As we all know, Microsoft still rules the market.
WinRar:
WinRar is another good tool in that it can decompress most common compressions, but it lacks that suave feel to it that makes WinZip attractive to professionals in fields that don't require knowledge of anything but zip files. While WinRar is a more capable tool than WinZip, my grievance is that it isn't free.
7Zip:
A very versatile tool, can deal with a lot of compressions, and is free. It doesn't do everything, but it does everything I need, and that's good enough for me. My grievance with 7Zip is that many of it's planned features, while apparent in the recent releases, are still not implemented. Split archives are hit and miss. The reason it has trouble with certain rar compressions is that WinRar fudges the headers on some of their own archives 7Zip can't read the header and unlike most other utilities that just ignore such things, 7Zip refuses to touch the archive, and that's just stupid.
UniExtract:
UniExtract is the swiss army knife of extractors. Very powerful, very useful, very distasteful. This app takes over your shell context menus and insists that most everything you attempt to download instead be directly opened with UniExtract when the files are not even archives. Even executables are at risk of being touched in some disturbing manner, I can't think of a time I wanted to extract the contents of Fable.exe. As good as UniExtract can be, it has too many drawbacks for everyday use. That aside, unless it is updated to be able to create archives, there's no point in it when you're dealing with everyday archive types that can be handled with WinRar or 7Zip.
That's a fair and balanced review of them all.
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