Top 5 Free Compression Utilities (ZIP)

1. ZipItFree

zipitfree ZipItFree is a small free utility that supports over 15 compression formats, Including (ACE, ARC, BH, BZip, CAB, GZIP, JAR, LHA, RAR, TAR, UUE, XXE, ZIP,Zoo, And  Archive Stream). ZipItFree is easy to use with modern interface that works with archives also. The ZipItFree windows integration gives you One Click capability for most of compression functions like Extract Here, Zip & Email.

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2. 7-ZIP

7zip 7-Zip is free and open source software. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don’t need to register or pay for 7-Zip. Its absolutely free utility. Supported formats are given as under;

  • 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.
      • 3. jZip

      jzip jZip is a very handy, small, easy and efficient compression tool that can Create, open and extract Zip, TAR, GZip and 7-Zip. Open and extract from RAR and ISO.  It is absolutely FREE for everybody, home and enterprise users. It is an easy to use and fast archiving software.

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    4. FreeZip

    freezip FreeZip is a small, fast and efficient Zip utility for compression and decompression of files and directories. It integrates with Windows Explorer and uses file associations and context menus to zip or unzip files and subdirectories. If you know how to use Windows Explorer, then you do not have to learn anything new to use FreeZip. The setup is a single-click process and there are no options or settings involved.

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    5. IZArc

    izarc IZArc is the best freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO. With a modern easy-to-use interface, IZArc provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools. It allows you to drag and drop files from and to Windows Explorer, create and extract archives directly in Windows Explorer, create multiple archives spanning disks, creating self-extracting archives, repair damaged zip archives, converting from one archive type to another.

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