difference between winzip &winarar?

Question

difference between winzip &winarar?

Answer 1

The biggest difference is with their primary compression type.



RAR has a lot of options and from my experience generally gives better compression.



ZIP is more of a standard, however, ZIP compression and decompression comes standard with many operating systems (like Windows) these days.



With WinRAR, you get both.





The second biggest difference, is that updates to WinRAR are free.

Answer 2

Both methods are used for compression of files to reduce their size



WinZIP:



The Zip encryption format is known to be relatively weak,

and cannot be expected to provide protection from individuals with access to specialized password recovery tools.

You should not rely on WinZip password protection to

provide strong security for your data.If you have important security requirements for your data,you should look into more robust cryptography solutions.





WINRAR:



ZIP format uses a proprietary encryption algorithm.

RAR archives are encrypted by the much stronger AES-128 standard.If you need to encrypt important information, it is better toselect the RAR archive format.For real security use passwords of at least 8 characters in length.

Do not use words of any language as passwords.

It is better to choose a random combination of

characters and digits.Note that passwords are case sensitive.

Remember that if you lose your password,

you will unable to retrieve the encrypted files.

Not even the WinRAR author is able to extract encrypted files.







Pros: You don't have to uncheck a lot of checkboxes at install.

Because the program has multilanguage support. As i see it won't obtain all the available memory - maybe not needed - but can use all the CPU time it may have.



The shell extension won't eat plenty of system resources when you right-click on a file or directory, this is a very good point. It's also very easy to use and i found no bugs, yet.



Splitting the files is very easy so you can share the files onto any sizes. SFX creating is easy, too. There are pre-defined sizes, like cd- or dvd-rom, floppy and zip-drive size. With little time you can create small installers with password protection which can help you to share your programs between your users.

Compressing over 4GB. Winrar has very good compression ratio and after versions changed i found no bugs with - very early - earlier plan compressing. But even this is true for RAR, it's not always true for ZIP.



Converting is possible. With settings, you can save a setting to use whenever you want (fe. best compressing fot special jobs). You can also set up testing so you'll never had bad surprises with damaged backups!



NTFS file system support can come in hand, storing security settings will provide you very good infos when you have to make a backup from ashes. Because you can also set to switch off computer when compression is finished, you can create schedulded jobs with it (fe. every friday afternoon). This and storing other relevant informations makes the program very good for backup purposes.



Cons: It can be very slow. Stack overflow vulnerability in this beta 2 release and it's not replaced.

Answer 3

Winzip only handles zip and a certain number of compressed files. Winrar, though developed for the rar files, has much more options to read compressed files.

Answer 4

These are two different tools for compresing files. There are other methods also by which we can compress the files. Winzip and win RAR are two different tools. Win Rar is more useful but Winzip is easily available and comon is use. Win Rar is more effective and helpful.

Answer 5

winzip specialises in zip format and some other compressing / decompressing formats where as winrar is expert in the rar format. Both are good compressing / decompressing utilities but winzip is world famous.

Answer 6

Both of them are crap!



7zip is the latest and the best, foc!



The main features of 7-Zip:



* High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression

* Supported formats:

o Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR

o Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS

* For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip

* Self-extracting capability for 7z format

* Integration with Windows Shell

* Powerful File Manager

* Powerful command line version

* Plugin for FAR Manager

* Localizations for 63 languages

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

Answer 7

WinZip is a file archiver and compressor for Microsoft Windows, developed by WinZip Computing (formerly Nico Mak Computing). It natively uses PKWARE's PKZIP format but also has various levels of support for other archive formats. It is a proprietary product traditionally offering a time-limited evaluation version.



WinZip began life around the early 1990s as a shareware GUI front-end for PKZIP. Somewhere around 1996 the creators of WinZip incorporated compression code from the Info-ZIP project, thus eliminating the need for the PKZIP executable to be present.



Since at least version 6.0 registered users could download newer versions of the software and enter their original registration information to obtain a free upgrade. This has ceased with version 10.0, although version 9.0 is still available for download from WinZip's web site.



WINRAR

WinRAR is a shareware file archiver and data compression utility by Eugene Roshal. Pocket RAR, a version of the file archiver for the Pocket PC platform, is available as freeware. It is one of the few applications that are able to create RAR archives natively, as the encoding method is held to be proprietary.



Complete support for RAR and ZIP archives, and unpacking of CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7z and Z archives.

Optional archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a key of 128 bits.

Files and archives up to 8.589 billion (10^12) gigabytes in size are supported. The number of archived files is unlimited for all practical purposes.

The ability to create self-extracting and multi-volume (split) archives.

Data redundancy is provided via recovery records and recovery volumes, allowing to reconstruct even damaged archives.

WinRAR supports advanced NTFS file system options and Unicode in file names.

From version 3.50 beta 1, WinRAR adds support for interface skins and themes.

From version 3.50, WinRAR supports Windows 64x integration.

From version 3.51, a few security vulnerabilities and bugs are addressed.

From version 3.60 beta 1, WinRAR includes a multithreaded version of the compression algorithm, which improves compression speed on systems with dual-core or hyperthreading-enabled CPUs.

WinRAR can be tested for free for up to 40 days and provides free unlimited upgrades. After 40 days, every time you start WinRAR, a window will pop up, telling you to buy it, or continue using the software without buying (with the exception of the window popping up every time you start the program).

Answer 8

Winrar Or Winzip

Answer 9

Winzip Or Winrar

Answer 10

winrar opens ,more file types than winzip.

Answer 11

winzip cannot open rars, winrar can open almost any archive.

Answer 12

winrar can unzip files as well as compress files.

winzip cannot compress files.

winrar supports much more file extensions

Answer 13

THEY RUN DIFFERENT