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WinRAR is pretty good, but 7-Zip is better.

Developer Igor Pavlov has released a new version of 7-Zip, his long-standing and hugely popular file archiving tool. The 25th edition of the software introduces improvements in compression speed and ...

I stopped trusting download sizes and started checking the hash.

Megan is a Software Writer at XDA Developers who has been writing about consumer technology since 2016. With a postgraduate degree in New Media journalism, she has always been passionate about diving ...

You can compress and decompress .zip format archive files using Windows’ own built-in capabilities, but that’s limited. Or you can use a commercial program like ...

7-Zip version 26.02 was released on June 25 to fix a remote code execution vulnerability that could allow attackers to execute malicious code by convincing users to open specially crafted compressed ...

7-zip has finally added support for the long-requested 'Mark-of-the-Web' Windows security feature, providing better protection from malicious downloaded files. When you download documents and ...

A new, extensive review of 15 archive applications was posted this week at DonationCoder.com, and of course, I take full responsibility for it; just one guy spending a month doing some real-world ...

Compressing files into a ZIP folder is a great way to bring order to your digital life. By bundling everything together into a small archive, you free up storage while keeping related content together ...