Protip: you can press escape to dismiss the winrar license notification rather than moving your mouse to the x in the corner, makes it that little bit faster.
Sorry, your future has [POLITICALLY DISAGREEABLE TOPIC] whereas my past has [SAFE TOPIC OF OLD]. I'm comfortable back here.
I like the one that ‘if winrar has the guts to ask you the buy it every time you open it, then you should to ask the cute girl at the coffee shop out’
How’s come Mac’s come with an archiver but windows don’t?
I bought winrar. Didn't like it though, so I switched to the vastly superior, and higher-tiered, 7zip. No regrets, except for paying for winrar.
Turns out some people on windows don't use WinRar? I thought it was ubiquitous - I mean, I know it looks like something from 2002, just never occurred to me
Once you switch to 7zip and get familiar with it, you will never look back. Unless you're exceptionally unlucky and you find one of the, like, 15 archive files on the internet that can only be opened with winrar? :v
Genuine question, what are the benefits? I'm yet to find something I can't do with Winrar
Aside from a vulnerability existing in WinRAR for 19 years because it doesn't have the transparency of open source alternatives. No much functionally.
7z provides support for more formats and algorithms, most of which should be/are more widely used than RAR formats. It also, as mentioned, is open source. It's pretty minimal, and 7z format compresses better than RAR in most cases.
I have 7z in my context menu, and I only have "Add to archive" and "Extract to XYZ\". I rarely have to open the actual UI.
What? It does. WinZip. It just doesn't really open most archive types, and its compression isn't as good as third party programs.
Basically, all of this. In addition, 7zip is very fast and snappy, the UI is very much similar to the default windows UI design and layout, and very user friendly.
https://i.imgur.com/32h3BY1.png
In addition to being very simplistic and pleasing to ones eyeballs, it also has context menu shortcuts to eliminate needing to use the UI at all if you wish!
https://i.imgur.com/D0unxve.png
(which you can customize!)
https://i.imgur.com/leIxra8.png
Overall it's very nice and free
Its not WinZip. WinZip is its own compression utility. Windows uses one made specifically by Microsoft for Windows.
Really? Huh. I guess someone downloaded it onto an old computer and I just assumed ever since. Not like I used it after WinRar or 7zip, anyway.
Only reason I know that is because we unironically use it at work for some 20 year old batch scripts that have never been updated because "they have always worked".
I've stuck to WinRAR mostly due to it's general ease of use, as well as having run into the already mentioned issue of 7zip not having worked on several files, as well as not working decently, easily, or otherwise. Plus, if you use regedit you can actually disable WinRAR's expire notifications in favor of a once every 10 or so times you open it up notification
7zFM is also my elevated Explorer. Since it's a bullshit task for browsing a computer with Administrator account rights.
Just right click from start > Run as Admin and shit now any programs I open from there are as admin.
Cheeky
I still want to know what these mysterious file formats are that only WinRAR can open. They have to be some kind of rar-based proprietary thing.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/7xpwco/why_7z_cant_extract_some_rar_files_and_says_data/dub49qa/
Could be related
Problems caused by proprietary software that are solved by using said proprietary software?
yeah, although you will find tech sheets for it.
https://www.rarlab.com/technote.htm
7zip fixed the RAR5 issue back in 2015
You're allowed to implement methods of extracting rar files, but to create them, you either are using WinRar, or a program that has a licence to do so
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