7-Zip is a popular, powerful, and versatile file archive utility that you can use to compress or decompress files and folders. The free and open source software is something of a Swiss Army Knife ...

When people talk about file compression, they usually mean ZIP. In fact, they often make it into a verb–much like we “Google” things on the Internet, we “zip” files before sending them over email. But ...

An official version of the popular 7-zip archiving program has been released for Linux for the first time. Linux already had support for the 7-zip archive file format through a POSIX port called p7zip ...

A compressed version of files, popularly known as zipped files are convenient but also prone to errors. So, when you attempt to open such files using freeware utilities like 7-Zip, you may encounter ...

There was a time that Windows didn't have decompression and archiving tools built into the OS, with many people resorting to tools like WinRAR and 7-Zip to unpack compressed files. Both apps are among ...

The latest release of 7-Zip, version 25.00, significantly enhances its multithreading capabilities on Windows platforms by enabling the use of more than 64 CPU threads. This update is especially ...

With version 25.00 of 7-Zip, the developer closed some security gaps in July. Until now, however, it was unclear which ones. Trend Micro's Zero-Day Initiative (ZDI) has now published information on ...

7-zip has finally added support for the long-requested 'Mark-of-the-Web' Windows security feature, providing better protection from malicious downloaded files. When you download documents and ...