Unzipping

[Eran of Arcadia]

Does anyone know the best and/or cheapest file unzipping program I can get? I used winzip for a trial period but now it's expired and I still want to unzip files. Are there others?

 

[Chukchi Husky]

There's WinRAR. It does have a 40 day trial period but you can still use it afterwards.

 

[Padma]

Last time I used Windows, WinZip worked fine even after the trial period was over. It just had a "nag screen" that came up whenever you started it.

 

[Furiey]

I found a little utility called ExtractNow. It's free and unzips zip, rar, ace etc files. Only unzips though and doesn't zip.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

All I need is to unzip. How can I get ExtractNow?

 

[Chukchi Husky]

http://www.extractnow.com/

 

[Speedo]

If you only need to open zips and have WinXP, there's no need for anything. It includes native support to open and create zips.

 

[the100thballoon]

WINACE! Better compresion (which you didnt ask for ) and can zip/unzip more file types than the above.

 

[Souron]

I just use Compressed(zipped) Folders utility that comes with Windows. Works great with Windows Explorer.

 

[Naked Paladin]

http://www.izarc.org/

 

[Comraddict]

install Linux

 

[sethos]

A very good Open Source zip program
7zip http://www.7-zip.org/

The main features of 7-Zip:

• High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
• 7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL
• Supported formats:
  • Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
  • Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM and DEB
• For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
• Self-extracting capability for 7z format
• Integration with Windows Shell
• Powerful File Manager
• Powerful command line version
• Plugin for FAR Manager
• Localizations for 60 languages

 

[Lahdoz]

WinZip 8.1 if you can find it somewhere.

Windows XP has zip built in, but you don't get all of the extra formats like WinRAR.