At the top, you will find three main options—Add, Convert, and Extract. Selecting the Add option allows you to archive files, ...

While Windows does have some built-in support for file compression, it's pretty limited, and definitely not enough even for a slightly more advanced user. You don't have to be doing rocket surgery or ...

Occasionally, you'll need to open several compressed files from one ZIP folder. While Windows does a fine job extracting, there are better tools to unzip.

7-Zip is a free, open-source file archiver with a high compression ratio. This software can be used on any computer, including the ones in a commercial organization.

To open ZIP files, you can use Windows. To open RAR files, you can use WinRAR, which is the software made by the company that invented RAR technology.

Earlier this year, we reported on Microsoft expanding its compression support in Windows 11 to include native RAR, 7-Zip, and other file formats that aren't your basic ZIP files.

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