Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Freeware: 7-Zip

Eventhough since Windows XP, Microsoft has built-in zip utility into its Windows Explorer (i.e. by right-click on any file or folder, then select 'Send To', then choose 'Compressed (zipped) Folder'), I still found this 7-Zip utility very useful, easy to use, and it can open quite number of most common compression format, e.g. zip, arj, rar, rpm, cab, etc. If you still using Windows 2000 or even Windows 98, you will find this utility very useful.

7-Zip is open source software and it's totally free for using for both personal and commercial use.

You might known WinZip very well as compression utility, but it is not free for commercial use (well, you can use its evaluation version forever though, no expiry, just annoying confirmation everytime you run it). So, you can't use it in office, because it is illegal.

You can download it here.

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