08.10.2025, 09:39 AM
"Win 11 "Compress To ..." now offers 7z file as a compression format." That is good news.
A couple weeks ago I wanted to download a file to my Win 10 machine. It was .7z, Winzip was suggested. Winzip put 5 or 6 shortcuts on my desktop. It even inserted it shelf so when I right clicked a .zip and did open with File Manager it was Winzip that opened.
That is too aggressive! Uninstalled. Winzip may be good stuff otherwise, but I disrecommend it.
I had not come across .7z before. In future I'll download and unpack .7z's on the Win 11 PC, then copy via thumbdrive.
Cheers,
A couple weeks ago I wanted to download a file to my Win 10 machine. It was .7z, Winzip was suggested. Winzip put 5 or 6 shortcuts on my desktop. It even inserted it shelf so when I right clicked a .zip and did open with File Manager it was Winzip that opened.
That is too aggressive! Uninstalled. Winzip may be good stuff otherwise, but I disrecommend it.
I had not come across .7z before. In future I'll download and unpack .7z's on the Win 11 PC, then copy via thumbdrive.
Cheers,