7-Zip offers many different file types to be opened in its File Manager. We covered using WinRAR for opening compressed zip, RAR, and other file types but today we’ll look at another useful program called 7-Zip.Example both 7-zip and Zip Genius offer splitting a compressed archive into customizable MB files and can easily combine them back. Perhaps it is just your desire to strictly use WinRar, but if you utilize open source compression software you have that option via the gui.Decompresses RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB, NSIS High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression 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 Powerful File Manager 7-Zip Portable on 32-bit and 64-bit PCs.The special compression algorithm compresses multimedia files, executables and object libraries particularly well. WinRAR automatically recognizes and selects the best compression method. WinRAR supports all popular compression formats (RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, Z and 7-Zip).It can be used to distribute 7-Zip to computers using a software management tool such as SCCM (System Config Configuration Manager). The following process shows how to setup a silent install that will work with 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows.
