


Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z.Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM.Self-extracting capability for 7z format.Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats.For ZIP and GZIP formats, the provided compression ratio is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip.High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression and LZMA2 compression.This file archiver works on all Windows operating systems, from Windows NT to 10 (32-bit and 64-bit). And it compresses to zip format 2-10% better than most of other zip compatible programs.ħ-Zip is free software, developed by Igor Pavlov and distributed under the GNU LGPL license. Usually, 7-Zip compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format. It also features integration with the Windows shell environment.Ĭompression ratio results are very dependent upon the data used for the tests. It operates either as a command line program or with a graphical user interface. 7-Zip is an open source file archiver with the high compression ratio predominantly for the Microsoft Windows operating system.
