Windows 7 Is 7Zip Compatible with Windows 7?

cybercore

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I have used 7-Zip x 64 for a couple of months, all has worked perfectly.

 

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devtom

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thanks, i'm gonna give it a try!

 

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Highwayman

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I Agree 7zip has now replaced WinRAR as my primary compressor for the last 5 months and is spot on.

 

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cybercore

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devtom said:

thanks, i'm gonna give it a try!

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Works like a charm, no doubts.

Highwayman said:

I Agree 7zip has now replaced WinRAR as my primary compressor for the last 5 months and is spot on.

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My opinion is that it replaced WinRAR years ago, better compression, faster speed. I once compressed my HL2 Ep1 SAVE folder from 700 Mb to 12 Mb with 7-zip, while WinRAR would shrink it to 40 Mb only.

7-zip forever.

 

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Highwayman said:

I Agree 7zip has now replaced WinRAR as my primary compressor for the last 5 months and is spot on.

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I was wondering why you switched.

cybercore said:

Works like a charm, no doubts.




My opinion is that it replaced WinRAR years ago, better compression, faster speed. I once compressed my HL2 Ep1 SAVE folder from 700 Mb to 12 Mb with 7-zip, while WinRAR would shrink it to 40 Mb only.

[FONT=\"Comic Sans MS\"][SIZE=\"2\"]7-zip[/SIZE][/FONT] forever.

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This answered my question why highwayman switched.
Ima give 7zip a try and wonder since all of compressed files I download are more rar files than 7zip"besides guru3d", if 7zip handles rar formats.

 

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cybercore

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epk1950 said:

I was wondering why you switched.


This answered my question why highwayman switched.
Ima give 7zip a try and wonder since all of compressed files I download are more rar files than 7zip\"besides guru3d\", if 7zip handles rar formats.

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7-zip has a significantly higher compression ratio, especially on raw data. But it does not compress significantly better in all 100% cases, it depends on the type of data.

(e.g. my Portal game Link Removed - Invalid URL folder)

 

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kemical

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devtom said:

Hello,

I want to install my favorite archive prog 7Zip.
Does anyone knows if everything works in win7?
Thx

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Use it all the time...

 

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Highwayman

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I tested the ultra compressing and shrunk my Left4dead from about 6gig to 2.5gig, which is handy cos hate reinstalling fresh on steam stuff.

 

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cybercore

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Highwayman said:

I tested the ultra compressing and shrunk my Left4dead from about 6gig to 2.5gig, which is handy cos hate reinstalling fresh on steam stuff.

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Yep, I did the same with a couple of my steam games too.

 

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Athlonite

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or if you'd like the best of both worlds for free then use peazip

 

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kemical

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Here's the link... PeaZip download free RAR 7Z TAR ZIP extraction

 

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