RAR and ZIP are two hugely popular archiving formats.Unfortunately ,the two most popular applications WinZip and WinRAR are commercial software .The scenario was almost different 5 years ago when one had to buy these as a must have piece of software .
But now we have many freeware applications which can be used as the alternatives of WinZip and WinRAR.Peazip is one such Freeware software which can handle these formats plus many more along with being free, lightweight and portable.
Open Archive files with PeaZip
PeaZip can handle multiple formats as shown in the figure below which include popular archive formats like Zip and Rar.Currently it supports 87 formats including formats popular on Unix platform such as tar,gz etc.
The Windows Explorer like interface is quite simple to use.And you get all archive related options like “Add to archive” and “Extract “ right on the top menu which is very easy to use.
Apart from being simple to use it also features encryption,secure deletion and a portable version.Its portability allows you to take the application on your USB pen drives.Based on the features and its cost[ $0 only ] it’s a must have application for every Windows or Linux user.
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