gwendes Posted February 1, 2007 Posted February 1, 2007 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 Posted February 1, 2007 Posted February 1, 2007 We dont allow kids to extract files, they'd get viruses everywhere! heheh Chris
gwendes Posted February 1, 2007 Author Posted February 1, 2007 Thanks - perfect. I took the liberty of adding it to the wiki...
mrforgetful Posted February 1, 2007 Posted February 1, 2007 We dont allow kids to extract files, they'd get viruses everywhere! heheh Chris How do you disable Windows Compressed Folders?
contink Posted February 1, 2007 Posted February 1, 2007 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 Posted February 1, 2007 Posted February 1, 2007 Delete this entry. ; Remove Windows built in .ZIP support [-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CompressedFolder]
Geoff Posted February 1, 2007 Posted February 1, 2007 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 Posted February 1, 2007 Posted February 1, 2007 I generally use TugZip for opening less commom ZIP formats such as RAR,etc. http://www.tugzip.com
mrforgetful Posted February 1, 2007 Posted February 1, 2007 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 Posted February 1, 2007 Posted February 1, 2007 7 zip has its own format as well which looks to be very good.
Geoff Posted February 1, 2007 Posted February 1, 2007 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 Posted February 1, 2007 Posted February 1, 2007 don't forget unrar http://www.winrar.de/edownload/tools.html
klawd Posted February 2, 2007 Posted February 2, 2007 We are using ZipGenius, it handles RARS fine http://www.zipgenius.it/eng/index.php Also has nice user friendly UI, compared to 7zip, which kinda looks like a Windows 95 app. Not open source but hey.. Why do most open source apps look so ugly.....
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