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File compression freeware

Do you know that WinZip and WinRar are not free. Both tools are shareware.

But don't worry. There is built-in support for compressed files in your system. For decompression of zip-files you can use the system tool in Windows 10. So you'll be able to unzip files.

But what about rar files?

You will need something more powerful. Luckily there are many tools that will help you to handle all the different compressed files for free.

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7-Zip 22.01
7 Zipfile archiver with high compression ratio and powerful command line options. Also support ZIP (including encrypted), CAB, RAR, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR archive files. review
ArcConvert 0.82
a file convertor that can convert the following archives: 7ZIP, LZH, CAB, ZIP, ARJ, ACE, RAR, TAR, TGZ, GZ, Z, BZ2, YZ1, YZ2, GCA, BEL, RPM, DEB, BH, Noa32, HKI, PAQAR, SQX, HA, ZOO, UHARC, LFB, ZLIB, UCL, IMP, RS, SPL, APK, Arc, DZ, MSI to the following ones: ZIP, 7-ZIP, CAB, LHA, TAR, TGZ, BZ2, YZ1, BGA, RAR, ACE, NOA32, HKI, PAQAR, UHARC, YZ2, DZ, HA. review
ArjVol 95 1.0
Front-end to the popular ARJ(TM) archiver. It allows you to easily create and join multiple archiver volumes. review
Azip 2.40
a portable Zip archive manager. review
Bandizip 6.24
Bandzipfree file archiver for Windows. Supports standard ZIP-files, 7Z(lzma2), ZIPX(xz), EXE(sfx), TAR, TGZ, LZH(lh7), ISO(joliet), GZ, XZ. Usually very fast as it supports multi-core CPUs. review
Dzip 2.9
Program you can use to compress files. It performs just as good as the competition, or slightly better, on average, both in compressing time and ratio. review
ExtractNow 4.8.3.0
a simple utility that allows you to extract multiple archives quickly and easily. review
FilZip 3.06
Archiving utility with all the standard operations and support for 14 archive types. 1 review
FS ZIP Extractor
Tool that allows you to create self-extracting ZIP archive that are run as an executable EXE file. review
Iceows 4.20b
extract, test, read properties and comments or view files stored in ICE, ARJ, ZIP, GunZip, TAR, Microsoft CAB, RAR, ACE, MIME, Mac HQX, UUEncode, XXEncode, Base64, JAR, EAR, WAR, LHA, IMP, BZ2 files. review
IZArc 4.5
archive utility that supports 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 files directly in Windows Explorer, create multiple archives spanning disks, creating self-extracting archives, repair damaged zipped archives, converting from one archive type to another, view and write comments and more. review
PeaZip 9.1.0
Peazipopen source file and archive manager, PeaZip is cross platform, available as portable and installable software for 32 and 64 bit Windows and Linux. review
The Unarchiver 121
simple tool for Mac that will help you to extract files from many archive formats. review
TUGZip
Powerful award-winning free compression software for Windows that provides support for a wide range of compressed, encoded and disc-image files, as well as very powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration. review
UPX 4.0.1
portable, extendable, high-performance executable packer for several different executable formats. It achieves an excellent compression ratio and offers very fast decompress. Your executables suffer no memory overhead or other drawbacks. review

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