Daily Freeware Reviews

IZArc is the ultimate freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO.
With a modern easy-to-use interface, IZArc provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access
to many powerful features and tools.

It allows you to drag and drop files from and to Windows Explorer, create and extract
archives directly in Windows Explorer, create multiple archives spanning disks, creating self-extracting archives, repair
damaged zip archives, converting from one archive type to another, view and write comments and many more.
IZArc has also build-in multilanguage support.

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7-Zip is a file archiver with high compression ratio and free software distributed under the GNU LGPL. The main features of 7-Zip:

• High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
• Supported formats:

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

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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.

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