The great Compression tool Battle! 7-Zip Vs WinRAR !!!

[Sreekanth V]

Ya 7-ZIP give me the best compression, but i have to do some tweaks, that is using the maximum possible compression which require a memory usage of 75% of RAM.

 

[Ashis]

Ya 7-ZIP give me the best compression, but i have to do some tweaks, that is using the maximum possible compression which require a memory usage of 75% of RAM.

Would U like to share UR tweak?

 

[mehulved]

I've used Winzip, Winrar and 7Zip out of which i found 7 zip as the best.Plus, its also free which gives it the edge over other two. But, I've learnt about many new ones here which i'll try out.

 

[Sreekanth V]

Ya 7-ZIP give me the best compression, but i have to do some tweaks, that is using the maximum possible compression which require a memory usage of 75% of RAM.

Would U like to share UR tweak?

Hmmmmm,
Wellllll, Dat is a big tweak so that I cant explain it here.
More over you may certainly be not able to understand it, right?

 

[navjotjsingh]

Atleast try to explain it - Sreekanth V We r very intelligent !

 

[gxsaurav]

Winzip 10 is out, anyone trying it

 

[navjotjsingh]

yes tried. its great!!!!!!!!!!

 

[gxsaurav]

hmm, can u provide screenshot & compression ratio comparision

 

[Sreekanth V]

I have a small collection of icons and it comes about 246MB.
Now the compression battle starts.
Winzip 10 -> 91MB
WinRAR -> 85MB
7 Zip -> 60MB


Now tell me which is best?

 

[gxsaurav]

right, 7-Zip is the best, & how much memory does it takes to decompress or compress with a dictionary size of 32 MB or even more

 

[sagar_coolx]

winzip+rar support+iso support=best combination

 

[nitish_mythology]

Zip Zenius

I have been using Zip Zenius for a long time and in my opinion it is the best. It has a cool GUI with lots and lots of features.....

 

[Zeeshan Quireshi]

iF u Want REAL compression Use KGB Archiver . It Compresssed 500MB of Apps Into 1.4 MB :O

 

[Vyasram]

Zip files to send as attachments as most centers dont hav rar and give only limited xp acc.

Rar files for personal use

UHARC for rippin game backups and multimedia stuff

KGB sucks

 

[ashisharya]

using winrar for over a year and happy with its compression rate

 

[new123]

winrar 3.60 is good but winrk 3.0.3 rolz3 is better for executables, text, bitmaps; squeez 5.20 is better for wav, tiff; and paq8f -3 is best for jpeg, documents (word, excel, powerpoint, etc...). Only smart configuration.

www.maximumcompression.com excellent site for compression software reviews or Squeeze Chart 2006 too.

 

[rakeshishere]

winrar 3.60 is good but winrk 3.0.3 rolz3 is better for executables, text, bitmaps; squeez 5.20 is better for wav, tiff; and paq8f -3 is best for jpeg, documents (word, excel, powerpoint, etc...). Only smart configuration.

www.maximumcompression.com excellent site for compression software reviews or Squeeze Chart 2006 too.

I too wanted to refer to the same site b4 i started using winrk..WINRK rocks man..Trust me its the ultimate in copmression and winrar is a f***in crap in front of it

 

[aj27july]

winrar is the best

 

[faraaz]

WinRar...most file I download use RAR compression, WinRAR has ISO support and compression efficiency & speed are reasonable!

 

[wilderness]

I prefer 7-zip.. No nag screens upon every archive you double-click !!

.zip creation in 7-zip is pretty fast, compared to winzip. .7z creation might be slower(almost half the speed of zipping speed), but it has the best compression ratio. I have been using this for over 2 years now, and I have never needed any other compression tool.