All of these are like winzip, but completely and utterly free - which one's best?
zipgenius it's better in the 'advanced mode' as the easy mode uses loads of confusing 'wizards'. about a 7mb download (!). interface slightly overly graphicy and animates when extracting zips, with a speedy computer it shouldn't matter too much, but with a slower computer, it might make you think 'why's it wasting it's time animating all that stuff, just get on with it!' tis very nice though. 98mb zip extracting: 18seconds.
7-zip, another winzip clone, sounds even better, it's completely free, plus it can compress stuff way better than anything else. plus this one's only 900kb to download. quite a basic looking interface - and pretty awkward to use, it doesn't auto-create folders for you etc. (i've only tried the earlier version, v3.13, i haven't tried the beta version). 98mb zip extracting: 13seconds.
filzip, suggested by phil, especially good if your name's phil, as filzip is like phil's zip innit. 1.16mb, with nice green icons. easy to use. 98mb zip extracting: 7seconds.
Tested on a P4 with a 2.66GHz CPU, and 512mb DDR ram. So there you go, Phil's is the best, easy to use, and the quickest, also a quick download. ZipGenius is overly graphical, too much megabytes to download, the slowest at extracting the zip. 7-zip (v3.13) is overly difficult to use, doesn't seem to support Windows drag and drop, but is quicker than ZipGenius. Filzip on the other hand, is easy to use, a small download, and the quickest program out of the 3.
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