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7-Zip
7-Zip is an Open Source compression algorithm (achieving a 30-50% better compression than ZIP), and the program 7-Zip is the tool to use algorithm on MS Windows systems. It provides support for (un)compression 7-Zip and AES encrypted ZIP archives.
7-Zip additionally brings support to decompress .arj
, .cab
, .gz
, .bz
, .tar
, .chm
, .cpio
, .deb
, .dmg
, .hfs
, .iso
, .lzh
, .lzma
, .msi
, .nsis
, .rar
, .rpm
, .udf
, .wim
, .xar
and .z
archives.
Installation
Windows
XP and above
Simply download the Windows installer and run it with administrator privileges.