Q&A: Is there any other softer ware to be used instead of Winrar?

Question by Great Man: Is there any other softer ware to be used instead of Winrar?

I am really tired of these soft for unziping folders.
I couldn’t really get it, it is maybe very complicated or very stupid design.
so please tell me something new to use it for unziping files?
that is Software sorry for my misspelling.

Best answer:

Answer by Mordak
7 Zip
http://www.7-zip.org/

7-Zip is a file archiver with high compression ratio.
7-Zip is free software distributed under the GNU LGPL.
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, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS
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 63 languages

http://www.paehl.de/english.php

Simplyzip is a FREEWARE multi archiver. It does not write any entries to the registry or anywhere else. Version 1.1 has been rewritten from scratch.
Main Features:
Open: ZIP, CZIP, ACE, CAB, RAR, TAR, GZIP, LZH, BZ2, SQX, RS, UUE, XXE, BASE64, UCL, ARJ, ZLIB, ALIB, RPM, DEB, 7-ZIP
Create: 7z, ZIP, CZIP, Cab, LHA, TAR, TAR GZ TAR BZ2, ACE (optionale DLL), Deepfreezer, SQX, UCL, RS, ZIP-SFX/LHA-SFX, RAR-SFX, UUE/XXE, ZLIB and Base64.
Multi-ZIP
Backup to disk (e.g. CD)
ZIP-Rpair
Crypt files with:Rijndael AES/Twofish (both 256bit keysize) and Blowfish (448bit keysize) incl SFX creator and an ArcConverter
Optional: See ArcConvert below
Create RAR/ACE (new version) and LHA SFX (with optional files from my site)
Localisation: English, German, Italian, Spanish, portugues-br, Swedish and Thai
ZIPSFX now in English, German, French and Spanish (in the setup)
Standalone: After installation you can copy all files from Simplyzip folder (excepted the uninst.exe) and use it whereever you want
Optional Plugins (ArcConvert, ACE DLL, LFB Archiver, Unpacker and a short german manual)

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