[XtremeMaC]

ease of use: WinRAR
options : WinRAR
have no problems with : WinRAR
has recovery option : WinRAR
sucks: Winzip it!

[aresgodofwar]

i was torn between winrar and winace until i discovered winrar could extract .EXEs.

[daze]

WinRAR because of the multimedia compression

[FthrJACK]

Gzip.

heh, nah its WinRAR

[prathapml]

winrar, because of its ability to create SFX files that can extract to defined paths (%programfiles%, %appdata%, etc.)

winzip is out of contention for me, but it's amazing the way winrar's gained reputation - when I started using winrar 2.50 in 2000, it had no attraction for me except that it could repair zips and rars, and winzip was pretty good at ver7.0.

[beeboy]

Lots of winrar lovers. Never used it myself. I've used Iceows, Bigspeedzipper, Izarc, and 7zip. Izarc is my fave.

[Papa Smurf]

Have used both and find Winrar ok but still stick to winzip?

[rkarthea]

this poll need not have been conducted
its a known thing that winRAR rulzzzz.

for someone qouted he/she could'nt find the poll conducted earlier,
it needn't have been conducted on msfn.may b it was somewhere else.

[Gism0]

Kenny McCormick, on Sep 29 2003, 04:17 PM, said:

WinRAR

greatest avatar ever.


up the irons

[Jono]

WinRAR is the only choice i was actually shocked to find out there are other compression utilities i thinks i am sticking with winRAR it does exactly what it says on the tin

[njven]

I like 7zip better as a program and how the context menus are formatted, but WinRAR .rar file is supperior compression. I wondered at one point and tested all 7zip supported formats at various settings and then tried WinRAR and RAR came out on top.

[Camarade_Tux]

7zip's LZMA compression is better than WinRAR's RAR compression.
However WinRAR can achieve better compression on multimedia files because it has some "filters". Some filters are developped for 7-zip too but not yet included in the official 7-zip.

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

For general use, WinRAR. For best compression, KGB Archiver, WinRK, PAQ8o, DURILCA, and other programs you never heard about.

[Camarade_Tux]

You must be mad to compress using PAQ and others.

[dirtwarrior]

I am just used to winrar. If it could make iso and compress to lzx21 then wow.

[jaclaz]

Hey peeps , you might want to notice that this thread dates back to 2004.

At the time Winrar was probably the best one around, nowadays 7zip or Izarc are better, or at least equal in functionalities and are several bucks cheaper.

KGB has a tight compression, but how muach time does it take to compress and decompress?

WinRK is said to be (slightly) the best one around, but not freeware.


jaclaz

[Camarade_Tux]

jaclaz, on May 11 2008, 08:41 PM, said:

Hey peeps , you might want to notice that this thread dates back to 2004.

Yes but it seems to be in fashion to revive old threads on msfn recently so let's be fashon-victims.

This post has been edited by Camarade_Tux: 11 May 2008 - 01:43 PM

[efrain]

WinRAR Rewlz!!!!

[KRYOGENIUS]

Hello

Winrar for some years ! but i was fed up to buy it or cracked it ! oups !

So welcome 7-Zip, the best compression software even if it doesn't have all compression format. but in 7z, it has a wonderful compression ratio !

Try it, love it !

[Maleko]

winrar does hav best compression by far, but i never compress files, only open them, so for that i use winzip, ease of use, but i hav winrar as well