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Forget Winrar, Get 7-Zip!!!

Discussion in 'Computers & Modding' started by rchuncleskeleton, Aug 5, 2009.

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  1. rchuncleskeleton

    rchuncleskeleton Well-Known Member

    7-Zip is a free extracting and compressing utilty that is better than winrar and supports more formats. Google 7 zip and get it!
     
    rchuncleskeleton, Aug 5, 2009
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  2. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    winrar is easier to use for people who have little understanding of such things.
     
    Loonylion, Aug 5, 2009
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  3. meganova

    meganova Well-Known Member

    I prefer Winrar.
    I've used it for a long time.
     
    meganova, Aug 5, 2009
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  4. Nathan_26

    Nathan_26 Well-Known Member

    i love 7-Zip :D one of my favourite programs
     
    Nathan_26, Aug 5, 2009
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  5. sexywogboy

    sexywogboy Well-Known Member

    I use both.

    For some reason, I like winrar better.
     
    sexywogboy, Aug 5, 2009
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  6. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    Thanks for the suggestion but using 7zip would cause an incredible amount of support, we still get people who don't know what WinRAR is, I'm fairly certain that _far_ more people would not know what 7zip is.
     
    Seph, Aug 5, 2009
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  7. rchuncleskeleton

    rchuncleskeleton Well-Known Member

    well not knowing what winrar is, is the same thing as not knowing what 7zip is. It's not very hard to explain....7zip pretty much works the same way as winrar, the only real differences are that it's free and readily available and it supports more formats.

    Discouraging use of 7zip because of ignorant users is the same thing as discouraging any extraction/compression software.

    that's like me saying "you don't know what winrar is? well nevermind then."

    Get 7zip and you won't get any stupid registration warnings because it's totally free.
     
    rchuncleskeleton, Aug 6, 2009
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  8. TirithRR

    TirithRR Well-Known Member

    But how exactly is this a site support issue?

    It's just a random "use 7zip instead of winrar" topic :)
     
    TirithRR, Aug 6, 2009
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  9. Usoppu

    Usoppu Well-Known Member

    7zip FTW :)
     
    Usoppu, Aug 6, 2009
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  10. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    That's a load of bollocks. I just happen to have the previous experience to know what I'm talking about, 6 years ago when we used WinRAR to compress files, WinZip was still the de-facto standard. Despite having multiple places telling people what WinRAR was we still got several questions a week about it. That's where 7zip is at today. And that's why we're not going to compress most files with 7zip.

    And yes, I do know the latest version of WinRAR can extract 7z files.
     
    Seph, Aug 6, 2009
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  11. insanecrazy07

    insanecrazy07 Well-Known Member

    Then what is the point of 7-zip?

    I used to think 7-zip was better, but after finding out that the latest version supports 7z, I got rid of 7-zip.
     
    insanecrazy07, Aug 6, 2009
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  12. rchuncleskeleton

    rchuncleskeleton Well-Known Member

    the point is that 7zip is freeware and winrar is trialware, which they want you to pay for, they both work the same way pretty much but why not just take the free one? Do some of you think it inadequate because it is indeed free compared to winrar?
     
    rchuncleskeleton, Aug 6, 2009
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  13. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    no, it is less well known and harder to use for someone who is not familiar with this kind of program.
     
    Loonylion, Aug 6, 2009
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  14. insanecrazy07

    insanecrazy07 Well-Known Member

    Everything in my world is free. hehe.
    And to correct you, winrar is nagware, it just nags you to buy the software, but you never have to buy it.
     
    insanecrazy07, Aug 6, 2009
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  15. manolisgoku

    manolisgoku Well-Known Member

    i think you have to buy it after 10-15 years
     
    manolisgoku, Aug 12, 2009
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  16. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    incorrect.
     
    Loonylion, Aug 12, 2009
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  17. mds64

    mds64 Well-Known Member

    ...I actually learnt (or figured out) how to use 7zip before I learnt winrar-that and I got sick of the prompts to buy the full version XD


    Prehaps it was because I had an older version (couldn't open 7zip files) and the old looking menu peed me off a bit...


    Can winrar open that TAR format or the GAR or what ever it's called?


    (I still prefer 7zip-number one program now-personally it's the same as winrar-I nocitced no difference between other than one is best as a trial download that last forever XD)
     
    mds64, Aug 13, 2009
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  18. marcy

    marcy Guest

    .tar.gz?
    Winrar can open that.
    The last 7zip I had can open it too, but in two steps.

    If I want to extract rar-files I do it with winrar.
    If I want to extract 7zip-files I do it with 7zip.

    I can work with both.
    So, I don't really care what is used, as long the compressed files aren't crushed to death by the program.
     
    marcy, Aug 13, 2009
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  19. mds64

    mds64 Well-Known Member

    Lol crushed to death...


    My 7zip opened it in 1-no idea what happened there.

    I would keep both-but hate having too many programs-especially one's that do the same thing as another...]


    Prehaps I should replace NERO with image burn-but that won't do mp3/standard cd music will it?
     
    mds64, Aug 13, 2009
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  20. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    tar is not a compressed archive, and tar.gz is gzipped, just about any archiving program can open that.
     
    Loonylion, Aug 13, 2009
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