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7-Zip can read most compressed file types today, including 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP, WIM, ARJ, CAB, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, CHM, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR, Z. In addition, 7-Zip supports its own 7z format compression, which according to In comparison, its compression ratio is much higher than compressing Zip format with WinZip. 7-Zip supports creating self-extracting exe archives like WinRAR, and has the function of splitting compressed files into many smaller compressed files.

7-Zip is completely free and open source development; You do not need to register to use or pay any fees to use.

Some major changes of  7-Zip latest version:

- Now added support for creating multiple self-extracting files in  7z format.
- The ability to support  ZIP, NSIS, HFS, AR has been significantly improved.
- Supports ISO files larger than 4 GB.
- Increased capacity, compression ratio through 7z format supports *.exe or *.dll files larger than 16 MB (BCJ2 filter improved).
- Supports directory and file paths longer than 260 characters.
- Fixed some minor bugs of the old version.

Key features of 7-zip:

- High compression ratio with 7z format (LZMA and LZMA2 compression standards)
- Supported compression formats: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
- Only support decompression: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR and Z.
- For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a 2 to 10% compression ratio, which is better than those offered by PKZip and WinZip.
- Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z format.
- Self-extracting for 7z format.
- Integration with Windows Shell
- Good File Management Support
- Powerful command line version
- Plugin for FAR Manager
- Localized 79 different languages.