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I would like to share with everyone this free “unzipper”, they call it 7-Zip. It is an open source software, which means anybody can tweak the code. I use this a lot when unpacking or unzipping ZIP file formats and it can also unzip or unpack other file formats such as 7z, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR, ISO and a lot more. At first, I thought it can only unpack 7 type of file formats because its name has a “7″ but after my research and installing it in my computer it gave me more confidence using the program because it can unpack or unzip most type of zipped files. Below are the main features of 7-Zip I got from 7-Zip’s website.
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: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z.
- For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
- Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
- Self-extracting capability for 7z format
- Integration with Windows Shell
- Powerful File Manager
- Powerful command line version
- Plugin for FAR Manager
- Localizations for 74 languages
