WinRAR free alternative?

[gwendes]

Just looking into licenses for the 'trial' version of WinRAR we have installed on most of our machines. It's looking at costing us around £1500 - can anyone suggest an alternative suitable for the kids to extract files only?

[ChrisC]

We dont allow kids to extract files, they'd get viruses everywhere! heheh

Chris

[pooley]

7zip ??

[gwendes]

Thanks - perfect. I took the liberty of adding it to the wiki...

[mrforgetful]

We dont allow kids to extract files, they'd get viruses everywhere! heheh

Chris

How do you disable Windows Compressed Folders?

[contink]

Thanks - perfect. I took the liberty of adding it to the wiki...

Can add my vote to that one... easy to deploy.

There's an msi available here:
http://www.doitrightconsulting.net/forum/

.. but you need to register to access the Releases forum which is where they're kept...

[ChrisH]

Delete this entry.

; Remove Windows built in .ZIP support
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CompressedFold er]

[Geoff]

There's an msi available here:
http://www.doitrightconsulting.net/forum/

.. but you need to register to access the Releases forum which is where they're kept...

but there's an official MSI?

http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

[flyinghaggis]

I generally use TugZip for opening less commom ZIP formats such as RAR,etc.

http://www.tugzip.com

[mrforgetful]

RAR > ZIP

[Geoff]

7-zip supports RAR.

[mrforgetful]

I know, I'm just commenting on the file type.

It sounds scarier that's why y'see.

PARs are cool too. Very clever that. Wonder when PAR3 will arrive...

[ChrisH]

7 zip has its own format as well which looks to be very good.

[Geoff]

7 zip has its own format as well which looks to be very good

Er sort of, it's more a wrapper enabling you to stack and plug in any combination of compression, conversion and encryption modules together.

More info at Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7z

[openhgs]

don't forget unrar http://www.winrar.de/edownload/tools.html