The Best Free Archiving Utility

Looking for an alternative program to open your zip files or other compressed file formats? Me too. I’ve been looking for a while, and I never really settle on anything. Check out TUGZip. It’s the best I’ve seen so far. Among some other that I’ve tried are 7-Zip, Winzip (damn that annoying registration notice), IZArc, and ZipGenius (This is also a good one… now that version 6 is complete, I might have to give it another go. Some minor problems with 6 Beta, made me want to switch. It’s also pretty bloated). TUGZip supports the 7-Zip format, rar, tar, ace, and of course zip. Those are some common ones that you might run into, and it does support a lot more than those. It has a nice clean UI, good shell integration, and it’s reasonably fast. It’s the best overall that I’ve seen so far. Agree? Disagree? Post a comment!

3 Responses to “The Best Free Archiving Utility”

  1. Ailyn Zel Says:

    i use that program and like it.

  2. groovenectar Says:

    yay! thank you for posting, ailyn :-) that’s neat that you use it too! i’m not sure that it is especially well-known software.

  3. Ailyn Zel Says:

    for some reason i don’t usually tell people i’m linking their site (or ask for that matter). but i’m letting u know.

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