WinZip brings the convenience of Windows to the use of ZIP files and other archive and compression formats. The optional wizard interface makes unzipping easier than ever. WinZip features built-in support CAB files and for popular Internet file formats such as TAR, gzip, UUencode, BinHex, and MIME. ARJ, LZH, and ARC files are supported via external programs. WinZip interfaces with most virus scanners.

WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format

AnyZip is a Windows archiver program for compression and decompress. With it you can create and extract archive with maximum convenience and efficiency.

RAR is a general purpose archiving and compression program competing with/replacing programs such as PKZip, ARJ, and others. It offers significantly improved compression ratios, easier use and a cheaper price as well as supporting long file names, disk spanning, and self-extracting file creation. Version 3.60 beta 4 1. Recovery speed improved when repairing heavily damaged archives using the recovery record. 2. If volume size field contained a value exceeding 4 GB,it was changed to wrong value after switching to any other page of archiving dialog and returning back to "General" page. 3. Update ('u') command did not work properly with some high ASCII names in beta 3.

RAR is a powerful archive manager. You may use it to backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress rar, zip and other files downloaded from Internet and create your own file archives.