Zip utility

[jamoskeag3]

Can anyone recommend a good free zip/unzip utility, and link to where to get it. Thanks.

[blutach]

7 zip is very good. Google it.

Regards

[jamoskeag3]

Thanks Blu for the quick reponse.

I meant to say i was looking for a zip utility that is Vista compatible.
In reading the 7 zip description, it says it works up to XP.

[soup]

Found two, I have never used them.

http://www.zipgenius.it/eng/index.php

http://www.top-shareware.net/BitZipper.html

[jamoskeag3]

Soup, thanks

[Dan]

I have used zipgenius, it has a nice interface, works nice. Much slower then 7 zip for large files though.

[jamoskeag3]

Thanks guys.
Zipgenius looks like a very good product, and is highly ranked by pCworld.

[soup]

No problem, anytime.

[ed klein]

Zip Central 4.01

http://zipcentral.iscool.net/

Works great with XP don't know about Vista. Been using for years on this XP machine. Does everything you would need.

[BR7]

TUGZip works great

[drfsupercenter]

Windows (at least XP) has a built in ZIP compatibility... it can both extract and make ZIPs on its own.

For everything else (RAR, etc), I use WinRAR. It's shareware, but never does anything once it expires so it's basically freeware

[UncasMS]

in addition to 7zip i also like IZARC

[anonymez]

Windows (at least XP) has a built in ZIP compatibility... it can both extract and make ZIPs on its own

A poor, not to mention inconvenient implementation though. Don't know for sure, but 7zip might work in Vista if run in XP compatibility mode. Most software does.

[drfsupercenter]

A poor, not to mention inconvenient implementation though.

Depends what you want.

Say I download a ZIP file off a website. I just right click and say "extract all". Works fine for me. If you just want a bunch of small files in a ZIP, for say uploading, it will do that too if you say "send to ZIP file". It doesn't compress well but I didn't think that was the question