Sometimes you may need to send a file to a friend, colleague or family, or upload it to the Internet, that is just to large to go through without errors. Most email providers for instance limit the maximum attachment size so that you may end up with error messages when trying to send that 200 [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

When it comes to compression software users have the choice between highly popular commercial applications like WinZip or WinRar, or equally popular free applications like 7-Zip. A relatively new program like HaoZip needs to at least match the functionality of those programs, or provide users with a unique feature that the other compression programs do [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I’m using a combination of the popular 7-zip archiver and the multiple archive extraction tool Extract Now for all my archiving needs. Hamster Free Zip Archiver caught my eye, not necessarily because of its functionality, but because of its beautiful design and interface. The free software program can be used to create or extract archives. [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Having at least one unzip software at your disposal is a must, considering that many files that you download from the Internet or receive from colleagues are packed to save up bandwidth during file transfers. Some operating systems come with basic support for unzipping files. Windows 7 for instance can unzip zip files without third [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

The popular compression software 7-Zip integrates itself nicely into Windows Explorer to make compression related tasks comfortable. Depending on the file selecting options are displayed to compress or uncompress the selection. Usually a lot of options are displayed when right-clicking files or folders in Windows Explorer which makes it more complex than necessary to selected [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

If you are a user of the popular data compression software 7-Zip you might like the newly released 7-Zip Theme Manager which replaces the default interface of the software program with user created themes. The theme manager is a portable software program for the Windows operating system. It will automatically scan the system for an [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Welcome to this week’s article that is listing all the interesting software updates of the last seven days. I’m trying my best to keep an overview of all the updates of the past week and collect them in that time to present you one article each Wednesday that contains a list of many major software [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

If you are looking for a universal archiv software other than 7-zip you should take a closer look at IZArc which lately replaced WinRar on my computer. The real beauty of IZArc is of course it’s support of most known archiv formats such as zip, rar, 7-zip, gz, ace, tar and dozens others including formats such as iso, bin and nrg.

Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows

If you are looking for an alternative to the windows xp build in unpacker you might want to take a look at 7-Zip. I was always looking for an unpacker besided the big two Winrar and Winzip who are both not free, after some researching I found 7-Zip which handles the most used file formats like zip and rar without problems.

Categories: Software, Tools, Windows