At the same time, the View menu contains a Folder History, and the Favorites menu allows you to save up to ten folders. For example, the extract button lets you quickly browse or accept the default destination directory for your file. The main toolbar contains its most used features, and several menus allow you to dig deeper.

It has a straightforward and easy-to-navigate interface. 7-Zip is free, open-source software with open source under the GNU LGPL license. If you insist on using 7-zip then you are better off using the 15.05 beta version with fixes, but a stable version would be much preferred.7-Zip is a file archiver featuring a high compression ratio to extract or create compressed files in multiple formats. It is a really good archiver if you only need it for simple packing & unpacking archives and not much more, but if you are looking for more features you will be better off using another archiver that can do the same as 7-zip and more such as PeaZip, Bandizip or ZipGenius. Some new icons with more options for the toolbar would be appreciated. A new 15.05 beta version with improvements is available, so what is happening? Why are all these betas released with no stable one? Also the 8-bit GUI is just ugly these days. A stable release has not had any new features or improvements for years. So far 9.20 has been the last stable version since 2010. Unpacking Only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR and Z.'Īlso included are an AES-256 Zip & 7-zip encrypter, 7-zip self extractor, Windows shell integration, File manager, command-line version & FAR manager plugin.' Supported formats: Packing & Unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM. 'High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression Here are the formats listed on their website: All basic features are here for the casual user. 7-zip is very light, fast, easy to use and has a simple GUI and 64bit support.

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