Hey guys. I've been using winrar crystal for awhile but i wanted to know what you guys thought of other unrar-ing tools like stuffit or something faster.
Try looking in the AD software section. I DLed a nice free tool from there this fall. I am at work. It is on my home office computer. If I remember, I will repost with the name.
It all depends. I am on newsgroups a lot, plus work in a corporate environment where I need to zip/archive files frequently.
WinRar is my favorite, and tends to be faster and more reliable. Integration into the Windows Shell (right-click and extract option) is handy, plus I can make self-extracting archives (SFX files).
7-Zip is useful as well, usually with .01, .02, etc. style archives. That's the only time I use it.
Someone had suggested ExtractNow for "batch" extraction, and it's another favorite of mine. It's slower than WinRar, but can queue multiple archives and extract them one-by-one. Very handy if time is not an issue, and you have multiple spanned archives that you need to extract.
I use 7-zip for because sometimes u'll stumble across that annoying 7-zip file and won't be able to extract it.
SProdigy doesn't show 7-zip fairly it also does the right click thing
I believe WinRar does batch extractions as well. You can select multiple files if you select them for extract here that does not require any user input.
Originally posted by keith1993: I use 7-zip for because sometimes u'll stumble across that annoying 7-zip file and won't be able to extract it.
SProdigy doesn't show 7-zip fairly it also does the right click thing
WinRar does the "right click thing" too, which is the shell integration I mentioned earlier. The options are at the top of the menu, so you less fuss.
Originally posted by Mez: I believe WinRar does batch extractions as well. You can select multiple files if you select them for extract here that does not require any user input.
I've never seen it, but let me know if you find out otherwise. If I try to extract multiple archives, they all run simultaneously, which slows the system and the extraction process to a screeching halt.
