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    WinZip 11 out now!!!!

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by jon.rambo, Nov 15, 2006.

  1. jon.rambo

    jon.rambo Notebook Enthusiast

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    check it out here. it now has RAR support
     
    jon.rambo, Nov 15, 2006
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  2. ScifiMike12

    ScifiMike12 Drinking the good stuff

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    Yeah, I just downloaded it now. Very nice looking I might ask. Got me the Pro version. :p

    Mike.
     
    ScifiMike12, Nov 15, 2006
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  3. LIVEFRMNYC

    LIVEFRMNYC Blah Blah Blah!!!

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    I use TUGzip. It's FREE and supports alot more than Winzip.

    I stopped using WinZip along time ago.
     
    LIVEFRMNYC, Nov 16, 2006
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  4. RedSensiStar

    RedSensiStar Notebook Deity

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    Same here >.<
     
    RedSensiStar, Nov 16, 2006
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  5. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    WinRAR all the way.
     
    Gophn, Nov 16, 2006
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  6. skywalker

    skywalker Business Notebook FTW!!

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    Yeah, I also prefer WinRAR...
     
    skywalker, Nov 16, 2006
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  7. M3z3iAs

    M3z3iAs Notebook Consultant

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    WinRAR for me aswell, supports everything that i need to unpack and defently packs well enough for me :)
     
    M3z3iAs, Nov 16, 2006
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  8. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    What are the benefits of this new Winzip compared to WinRAR?
     
    Budding, Nov 16, 2006
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  9. Zellio

    Zellio The Dark Knight

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    You guys know XP unzip zip files natively LOL?
     
    Zellio, Nov 16, 2006
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  10. zolo

    zolo Notebook Evangelist

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    It doesn't support all formats that winrar support,, hmm and adds itself to start up programs list. Ma 3endik A7ad :p
     
    zolo, Nov 16, 2006
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  11. zolo

    zolo Notebook Evangelist

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    To go through the wizard everytime I want to unzip somthing? nothnx.
    There's a way to costomize it but it doesn't support most popular extensions so meh....
     
    zolo, Nov 16, 2006
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  12. iza

    iza Notebook Evangelist

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    There's so many freeware programs better than winzip and winrar.

    Quickzip, Tugzip, IZArc, ALZip, Zip Genius, Filzip..
     
    iza, Nov 16, 2006
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  13. Bwen

    Bwen Notebook Evangelist

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    Can you compress files with XP though?
     
    Bwen, Nov 16, 2006
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  14. usapatriot

    usapatriot Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    ExtractNow > Winzip any day, and its free.
     
    usapatriot, Nov 16, 2006
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  15. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    I actually use 7Zip. It's open-source, and supports tar, rar, gzip, zip, etc. Just a better program in general, has shell (right-click) extensions so you can right click and extract a file to anywhere, open it, whatever, and it's completely unencumbered by nag screens or anything.
     
    Pitabred, Nov 16, 2006
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  16. Gophn

    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    WinRAR also supports the new 7zip format. It owns.

    Got a registered version for free when WinRAR won the shareware of the year award. They gave out free registered WinRAR 5.x for 24-hours for anyone that signed up on their site.

    Then they email you the reg file in your email to put into the install dir to make it registered.

    Its even Windows 64-bit ready, I have used it, the context menu's work and everything.

    No point in using XP's lame zip program or WinZip.
     
    Gophn, Nov 16, 2006
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  17. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    But for those people who missed that promotion, or want the program that started 7Zip (it's been around since at least 2000, so it's not "new"), go to http://www.7-zip.org/ it's completely free (as in beer and speech), no shareware/adware/nagware/whateverware, and works really, really well, on these formats:

    * Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
    * Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS

    Why bother with commercial software?
     
    Pitabred, Nov 16, 2006
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  18. iza

    iza Notebook Evangelist

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    Hm, 7zip has improved quite a bit since I last tried it; didn't used to be able to open ISO, which I use alot.
    My favorite one is still Quick Zip though.
     
    iza, Nov 16, 2006
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  19. olyteddy

    olyteddy Notebook Deity

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    Zip is native in Windows. Windows explorer just opens the Zip as another folder.
    Right click menu -> Send to -> Compressed (zipped) Folder.
     
    olyteddy, Nov 16, 2006
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