whats the diff between winzip and winrar?

[Solodays]

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[Pirotech]

There is a Comparison, where you can see the difference.

 

[corkyg]

Good reference, Pirotech. There is one statement in the comparison that merits a comment:

"These tests clearly show that zip is a clear looser. Do not use zip files unless space is not an issue - and why compress then? Well, for some reason zip is still very widely used."

This is true, and there are still good reasons for using .ZIP as opposed to .RAR or .ACE. That is, universality. Nearly everyone has a ZIP capability, and it is built in to the newer Windows OS's. And, not all files are bundled together to simply save space. Sometimes it is merely to keep them together.

 

[AllGamer]

WinRAR is better, stronger, compresses more.

but is not free... well neither is WinZip

 

[Modelworks]

A feature few people know about with winrar is the ability to create a exe file from the archived files.
Its basically all your files combined into a self extracting file so you don't even need winrar to extract it.
Just check the box marked sfx when making an archive.
The password protection on winrar is also very good.
A full length password in rar could take years to crack with brute force.

 

[corkyg]

BTW - this is a free compressed file "Swiss Army" knife:

Free