7-Zip is an archive manager supporting the creation and viewing of a wide variety of different formats. Includes folder favorites, optional 2-pane view, available AES encryption, checksum calculator, file split/combine capability, and more.
7-zip is the official file archiver for the open, high-compression "7z" format that achieves higher compression than many others via LZMA algorithms. In addition, 7-Zip supports the creation of ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, and XZ files, as well as the extraction of RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB, NSIS, NTFS, FAT, VHD, MBR, APM, SquashFS, CramFS and MSLZ files.
7-Zip Portable is a wrapper from PortableApps.com and supports 32 or 64-bit automatically. Alternatively, X-7zip is also available.
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| System Requirements: | WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Stealth: ? | Yes |
| Unicode support: | Yes |
| License: | Program and Launcher: GPL, 7z format: LGPL |
| How to extract: | Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch 7-ZipPortable.exe. |
| What's new? | This release fixes an issue with settings being maintained for new installs in the PortableApps.com Platform. |
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rogerthedodger
on 2013-02-03 00:35
Used winzip for ages, and moved to 7zip a couple of years ago. This program blows me away, does everything ive ever wanted without all the extra baggage. Got to be one of the absolute best portable freeware ever. Cant go wrong here, and no im not on their payroll....
Mixture
on 2013-02-13 17:28
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Universal Extractor allows you to extract files from many types of archive files, including ZIP, ARJ, LZH, as well as MSI and EXE files created using various installer packages such as Wise and Inno Setup etc. Useful for testing apps for portability because you can extract files directly from installer packages without having to go through the installation process.
Alternatively, an unofficial version with the latest-and-greatest internals is available (on Lupo's PenSuite site).
Commercial use note: there are restrictions on the included files UHARC02.EXE and UHARC04.EXE. These files can be deleted without dramatic impact on the software and will only disable extraction of a small number of file types. See website for more information.
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| System Requirements: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Stealth: ? | No. Included libraries may write to the registry. |
| Unicode support: | Yes |
| License: | Main program: GPL, Included libraries: various, see note about commercial use |
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Added support for environmental variables (eg., specify %temp% for debug dir) Added support for XZ compressed files and txz/tlz archives via 7-Zip Added support for Windows Installer merge modules (.msm) via MsiX Added support for NBH files via NBHextract Added translations for Armenian, Czeck, Persian (Farsi), Serbian, Swedish Changed 7-Zip unpacking behavior; now attempts brute force extraction only after External PEiD scan; change due to aggressive .exe resource extraction in new versions Changed Windows installer support (.msi, .msp) to use MsiX instead of msi2xml Changed LZMA support to use 7-Zip for extraction Changed FEAD support to use PEiD rather than TrID for detection Changed following formats to call 7z by name (also see 7-Zip debug comment): bz2, chm, gz, tar, Z this is mostly for code cleanup; functionality should be the same Fixed InstallShield 5.x regression in 1.6 preventing successful extraction Fixed bug in extraction of non-TAR LZW compressed files Fixed bug that prevented picking files after toggling history option Fixed bug in display of history combo boxes when no items listed Fixed cosmetic bug in Visual C++ SFX status dialog Fixed cosmetic bug in status dialogs due to extra padding by AutoIt Removed lzma helper binary Removed msi2xml helper binary and MSXML download link on MSI selection page Removed Windows NT 4.0 support from installer Removed debug output for 7-Zip, arj, hlp; buffers output, preventing proper user feedback and input prompts Updated success/fail detection to check output directory timestamp; can detect cases where files are overwritten, which old method missed; will still consider failed if user chooses not to overwrite files, or if all files are written to a subdirectory of the output directory Updated RPM and DEB support to extract interim CPIO and TAR files Updated FEAD support to workaround read-only permission issue Updated Zip support to log unzip output and permit minor reported unzip errors Updated PEiD detection of Microsoft SFX cab files for more reliable extraction Updated some UniExtract window sizes for better internationalization support Updated translations for Italian, Korean, Russian Updated 7-Zip to 9.13 beta Updated AutoIt to 3.3.6.1 and replaced deprecated _ArrayCreate UDF Updated InfoZip unzip to 6.0.0 Updated Inno Setup to 5.3.9 Updated innounp to 0.31 (supports Inno Setup 5.3.9) Updated InstallExplorer WCX to 0.9.2 Updated MSI WCX to 1.2.1 Updated PEiD to 0.95 Updated UnRAR to 3.93 |
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smallhagrid
on 2013-02-18 17:13
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smallhagrid
on 2013-02-18 17:20
Sorry, should have included the link:
Midas
on 2013-02-18 22:48
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From your post @ http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=62408#p62408 I guess you were able to educate yourself, smallhagrid. I only wish you'd document your fiddlings in there, too... |
Bandizip is an archive tool that supports the creation and extraction of common compression formats, as well as the specialized ZIPX format (from the makers of WinZip). Supports a customizable interface, the searching of archives by file name, file splitting, password protection, self-extracting archives, and varying levels of compression. Also supports the creation and extraction of more specialized formats from 7-zip and WinRAR.
Additionally, Bandizip's "High Speed Archiving" function will allow you to compress or bypass the files its own algorithm on multimedia files (AVI, WMV, MP3...) or archive files (ZIP, RAR, 7Z...) that won't benefit from additional compression. This can increase archiving speed dramatically. Extract formats supported include 7Z, ZIPX, RAR, ALZ, EGG, TAR, BH, LZH, BZ2, ISO, CAB, WIM, XZ, ARJ, ZIP, Z and more.
Supports both 32 and 64-bit, as well as 29 world languages. A portable beta version is also available.
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| System Requirements: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Unicode support: | Yes |
| License: | Freeware |
| How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Bandizip32.exe. |
| Similar/alternative apps: | 7-zip, PeaZip |
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outskirter
on 2013-02-28 22:13
Oh, and why is there never a change log shown for Bandizip's updates? I've even had that problem on their site.
outskirter
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Thanks, Midas! My mistake; I kept looking in the Bandizip forum, rather than the Bandisoft announcements. |
FileOptimizer is a lossless file size optimizer supporting a long list of file types from audio/video (MP3, OGG, OGV), image (GIF, JPEG, PNG), and even office formats (DOCX, XLSX, ODT, PDF) and system files (DLL, EXE). The program keeps the behavior of the file untouched, but with its size reduced thanks to a variety of recompression and optimization techniques. Original files are sent to the recycle bin for restoration in the event the uncompressed version is preferred.
Supports drag-and-drop of files into the window or onto the program icon.
A 64-bit version is available (within the folder).
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| System Requirements: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Wine |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Stealth: ? | Yes |
| License: | GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) |
| How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FileOptimizer32.exe (for 32-bit OS) or FileOptimizer64.exe (for 64-bit OS). |
| Similar/alternative apps: | ArcThemALL!, PngOptimizer, RIOT |
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webfork
on 2013-01-05 19:47
Outstanding, especially on PNG files and when used in concert with RIOT (http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.php?id=1821). I've thrown a wide variety of files at this program and seen quite a bit of space saved. It's difficult to tell which supported files will compress by how much, but it's always important to test when posting web images or distributing files to large groups, saving a lot of bandwidth.
BGM
on 2013-01-14 01:54
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It seems like, although this program supports all those file types, the parameters seem only to be applicable to swf and gz files. I couldn't figure out how to work this on a jpg file. Anyone got a tip for me? |
PeaZip is an easy to use file manager-style compression tool supporting its native PEA archive format that features splitting, flexible encryption and integrity check schemes. It also supports most mainstream archive formats, including 7ZIP, ACE (read), BZIP2, CAB, GZIP, MSI (extr.), RAR (extr.), TAR, UPX, ZIP etc.
Alternatively, PeaZip Portable portablizes bookmarks and includes both 32 and 64-bit versions, automatically using the proper one on each PC.
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| System Requirements: | WinAll / Wine |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Stealth: ? | Yes |
| Unicode support: | No |
| License: | LGPL |
| How to extract: | Download the "PeaZip Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch peazip.exe. |
| Similar/alternative apps: | 7-zip |
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the_watcher
on 2011-06-02 10:22
the link to the portable version is wrong. download it from here : http://code.google.com/p/peazip/downloads/list
Mixture
on 2013-02-01 17:12
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I encountered a most undesirable feature of this software. If you delete any of the unnecessary language files (i.e. non English), and then try to run PeaZip, the software automatically terminates! I have been looking for a good portable file archiver, but with this bad bug, PeaZip is not my choice! |