Best freeware alternative to winrar and winzip

Nowadays, most of the software packages and installers files come in compressed formats to reduce their size. It became a essential that pretty much all the computers must have an archive utility program like WinZip or WinRar to handle the compressed files,and also to compress large files.A utility that handles compressed files like zip and rar is an  requirement for every Windows PC.

The softwares that are most popular in this area are WinZip and WinRar. Both of them are paid softwares which is not available for free, so some of us are even running cracked version of these tools.But there are some freeware applications that does the same thing as WinRar and WinZip and some do it even better. So, I’ve compiled a list of 10 Best Free Alternatives to WinRar and WinZip, which are highly powerful and functional like winrar and winzip.

1,7-Zip

7-Zip is a free and most popular file zipping and unzipping software.7-Zip is a good file arciver with high compression ratio. If you are looking for a free replacement for Winzip or Winrar for netbook, 7-Zip is a good choice. For now, let’s see what 7-Zip has to offer.

• High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
• Supported formats:
  Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
  Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z.
• For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
• Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
• Self-extracting capability for 7z format
• Integration with Windows Shell
• Powerful File Manager
• Powerful command line version
• Plugin for FAR Manager
• Localizations for 74 languages

7-Zip works in Windows 7 / Vista / XP / 2008 / 2003 / 2000 / NT / ME / 98. There is a port of the command line version to Linux/Unix.You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don’t need to register or pay for 7-Zip.

[Learn more & download 7-Zip]

2,IZArc

IZArc can easily create achieves and allows to Add, Delete, Extract or Convert archives.With a modern easy-to-use interface, IZArc provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools. It allows you to drag and drop files from IZArc to extract them anywhere you want, create multiple archives spanning disks, creating self-extracting archives, repair damaged zip archives, converting from one archive type to another (BIN to ISO, NRG to ISO), view and write comments and many more.

It is the ultimate freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats like:

7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO.

IZArc has also build-in multilanguage support.It works with Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7 [Download & learn more about IZArc]