WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.

* Using WinRAR puts you ahead of the crowd when it comes to compression by consistently making smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs.
* WinRAR provides complete support for RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives.
* WinRAR offers a graphic interactive interface utilizing mouse and menus as well as the command line interface.
* When you purchase WinRAR license you are buying a license to the complete technology, no need to purchase add-ons to create self-extracting files, it’s all included. One price, one payment, once.
* You also receive the benefit of a life-time use of the WinRAR archiver. No upgrade fee to pay. When a new release is made, simply download and install, your license is valid for life.
* WinRAR is easier to use than many other archivers with the inclusion of a special “Wizard” mode which allows instant access to the basic archiving functions through a simple question and answer procedure. This avoids confusion in the early stages of use.
* WinRAR offers you the benefit of industry strength archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a key of 128 bits.
* WinRAR supports files and archives up to 8,589 billion gigabytes in size. The number of archived files is, for all practical purposes, unlimited.
* WinRAR offers the ability to create selfextracting and multivolume archives.
* Recovery record and recovery volumes allow to reconstruct even physically damaged archives.
* WinRAR features are constantly being developed to keep WinRAR ahead of the pack.

Developer: RARLAB
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 1.2 MB
Download WinRAR 3.80 beta 5 link

IZArc 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.

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 and to Windows Explorer, create and extract  archives directly in Windows Explorer, create multiple archives spanning disks, creating self-extracting archives, repair  damaged zip archives, converting from one archive type to another, view and write comments and many more.  IZArc has also build-in multilanguage support.

With IZArc you can open CD image files like ISO, BIN, CDI and NRG. It is also possible to convert such files from one type to another (BIN to ISO, NRG to ISO).

Developer: Ivan Zahariev
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 3.6 MB
Download IZArc 3.81.1550 link

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. 7-Zip is open source software. 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.

The main features of 7-Zip:
* High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
* Supported formats:
o Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
o Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, MSI, WIM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS
* 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 69 languages

Developer: 7-Zip
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 0,9 MB
Download 7-Zip 4.59 Alpha 3 link

PowerArchiver 2007 is popular archive programm for the Windows. PowerArchiver offers hundreds of features, yet remains easy to use, small and fast.

A completely revamped user interface in PowerArchiver 2007 makes it easier to access the wealth of features that PowerArchiver has. This task-based interface utilizes the same “Ribbon” design found in Microsoft Office 2007, and ensures you qick access to the most used features while not hidding others under layers of menus.

Full PowerArchiver 2007 Feature List

* Complete built-in support for 7-ZIP, ZIP, CAB, LHA (LZH), TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, BH, RAR, ARJ, ARC, ACE, ZOO, GZ, and BZIP2 file formats
* Support for reading and extracting disc image formats: ISO, BIN, IMG and NRG
* Built-in support for XXE, UUE, and yENC encoded files and full MIME (Base 64) support
* Creating ZIP, 7-Zip, CAB and PAE encrypted self-extracting archives using a Wizard interface
* Support for unlimited size ZIP archives, with improved performance when working with 100,000+ files
* Support for Deflate64, providing improved compression results (both size and speed)
* Complete support for PKZIP 4.0 and PKZIP 4.5 disk spanning
* Compression Profiles to store frequently used compression settings
* Full support for ZIP AES encryption, 128-bit/192-bit/256-bit (supports: PKZip 5.1 (full), Secure Zip 8.0 and WinZip 9.0 AE-1 & AE-2) and proprietary PAE format using 5 different methods: Blowfish (128-bit), DES (64-bit), Triple DES (128-bit), AES 128-bit, and AES 256-bit
* Support for AES encrypted 7-Zip archives and multivolume 7-Zip archives
* Support for transparently updating 7-Zip archives
* Uploading archives or backups directly to FTP or SFTP (SSH) sites with multiple profiles supported and timeout option
* Password manager for saving frequently used passwords
* Tool for creating PBS backup scripts and running automated backups
* Internal viewer that supports TXT, RTF, GIF, PNG, BMP, ICO, TIFF, GFI, SGI, EMF, WMF, PPM, Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk, Truevision, ZSoft Paintbrush, Kodak Photo-CD, JASC PaintShop Pro, and Dr. Halo file formats
* Many powerful archive operations (including: renaming files in archive, spanning archives, testing archives, viewing and writing comments, installing archives, and checking archives for viruses)
* Drag and Drop from/to Windows Explorer and the Desktop
* Two ways of viewing archives (Classic - all files in the same listing; Explorer - browsing through an archive like folders in Windows Explorer)
* Complete integration with Windows (extracting archives and creating archives directly from Windows Explorer using powerful “Explorer Shell Extensions”)
* Ability to edit files within an archive using one single operation
* Printing file listing to text file or HTML document
* Tool for repairing corrupted ZIP archives
* Converting between file formats (for example: changing a ZIP archive to CAB archive, or LHA archive to ZIP archive)
* Extracting multiple archives at the same time
* Batch Zip function to create multiple different archives at once
* Favorite Folders to quickly locate archives
* Powerful Find function for searching within an archive
* Auto Update to automatically download and install new versions of PowerArchiver
* Powerful help in HTML and a tutorial with pictures for beginners
* Full skinning support via PSF files - includes interface skins, toolbar skins, icons and customizable application settings
* Windows XP Theme and ClearType support
* Full support for Windows Vista, including UAC and Vista’s new dialog windows
* Modern user interface that utilizes the “Ribbon” licensed from Microsoft Office
* Queue System for automating add, extract and backup functions in PowerArchiver
* PowerArchiver Starter - system tray application for speeding up tasks
* Plug-in System that enables users to add support for more file formats by downloading and installing plug-ins

Developer: ConeXware, Inc.
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 4.6 MB
Download PowerArchiver 2007 10.22 link