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The newest 7-Zip and PeaZip can work on Windows 2000 and above, but WinRar and WinZip require at least Windows 7. As for history: WZip originates from 1991, WRar from 1995, 7Z from 1999, PeaZ from 2006! As for memory: while these programs were open on idle, as seen here, their RAM usages were: 7-Zip: 1.4 MB WinRAR: 4.5 MB PeaZip: 20.1 MB
Actually in GUI I prefer WINRAR. The others are I think same but in compression 7 zip can compress files into more types like .7z. If you want the software in other languages WINRAR supports over 50 languages I think. 7zip is faster sometimes. .zip file is the most used format these days so they both do the same if you are a regular user.
this is fine for images, you take a high quality large image, reduce the quality slightly and reduce the size immensely, so you are ineffect changing the contents of the file. with winrar, you need to get back to the original, or it defeats the purpose of it. files used by humans like images/audio/video are fine with lossly compression.
He has read an article from 2007 and RECENTLY bought WinRar ;-; Nowadays: 2022 7z format > 2022 rar format Furthermore: 7zip - free and open source WinRar - paid and proprietary I don't understand this, but as they say: "different strokes for different folks". P.S. One major point for WinRar though, it has way better SFX creator.
It's compatibility with various archive standards is limited and it's proprietary software, whereas 7zip is open source, also one click is the key, winrar generally provides legacy options like sending to devices or emailing them that can easily confuse the general audience that just wants to extract some files
It works out for WinRAR because there's a tremendous amount of brand awareness, even in the face of free alternatives, because it is so lightweight and functional and "basically free". They want users to carry this knowledge with them when those users become office managers or IT directors making large purchasing decisions.
winRAR lets you continue to use it even after the 40 day trial has ended because that's the best way for them to make money. If winRAR really only had a 40-day trial, and you had to buy the program after that 40-day trial, less people would use winRAR and therefore it wouldn't be as well-known, therefore less people would use it and less people ...
So I am a little confused on this, which website is the official one, YT says that win-rar is the official one where as Google says rarlab is the official one, I want to download Winrar from the official website because I fear that the others are fake and will give me a virus.
7zip is free, WinRar is shareware (trialware). In my experience, 7zip is also slightly faster, has slightly better integration and consumes less resources (this changes with versions, grain of salt please). Finally, I don't believe 7zip integrates into the "new" context menu in W11, while WinRAR does (mostly).
Rar and later Winrar had several features that made it mucho popular in the early days of the internet and file sharing. For example, when sharing binary data (i.e. pictures, movies) over newsgroups or floppy disks (remember, there was a time before CDs) you frequently would have to "chunk" your data up into numerous ~1-1.4 MB chunks.