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Good freeware .zip .rar programme?

kangoora
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Can anyone recommend one of these?

Just downloaded PkZip trial version to unzip a file but reluctant to pay much (if anything really) for a programme I tend to use less then 3-4 times/year.

I thought WinZip was free with Windows 10 but seems I was confused over this?
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  • mksysb
    mksysb Posts: 437 Forumite
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    Have a look at 7zip

    https://www.7-zip.org/
  • wongataa
    wongataa Posts: 2,739 Forumite
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    kangoora wrote: »
    I thought WinZip was free with Windows 10 but seems I was confused over this?
    Windows can open and create .zip files and has been able to do so for many years. It can't work with other compressed archive formats. I would use 7 Zip for handling all these compressed formats.
  • Neil_Jones
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    kangoora wrote: »
    Can anyone recommend one of these?

    Just downloaded PkZip trial version to unzip a file but reluctant to pay much (if anything really) for a programme I tend to use less then 3-4 times/year.

    I thought WinZip was free with Windows 10 but seems I was confused over this?

    Winzip is the best example of an unzipping program but it is not part of Windows. The ability to unzip is part of Windows and has been since the days of Windows XP :)

    7-Zip, as stated, is free and open source. Can open pretty much anything and a bunch of stuff you didn't know could be opened with it :D
  • Belenus
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    Neil_Jones wrote: »
    ...7-Zip, as stated, is free and open source. Can open pretty much anything and a bunch of stuff you didn't know could be opened with it :D

    I bet it can't open the can of sardines in my kitchen. :D

    On a more serious note, I use 7-Zip too.

    It is free and simple to use.
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  • kangoora
    kangoora Posts: 1,193 Forumite
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    Thanks all, 7 zip downloaded and installed
  • esuhl
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    kangoora wrote: »
    Just downloaded PkZip...


    Wow! Are they still going? I remember using pkzip and pkunzip in MS-DOS.
  • poppellerant
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    esuhl wrote: »
    Wow! Are they still going? I remember using pkzip and pkunzip in MS-DOS.
    I still remember using ARJ and JAR32 - the latter having the best compression ratios at the time.
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    anitahenley4 said:
    If you are looking for some kind of RAR file opener and repair it then you should go 
    Go....... away is what you forgot to say

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  • forgotmyname
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    edited 1 October 2020 at 5:24PM
    I was expecting them to say Go Back to the Future...   Or back to 2019 when the question was asked and got answered.

     No?     Have they gone to where their missing link is?


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  • Le_Kirk
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    forgotmyname said:
    I was expecting them to say Go Back to the Future...   Or back to 2019 when the question was asked and got answered.
     No?     Have they gone to where their missing link is?
    I did ............. next week!
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