RAR vs. Winzip

Published on September 3, 2005 By jazzymjr In Personal Computing

Hi all,
I found a rainmeter that I liked, and tried to download it...discovered it is a RAR file, not winzip. I only have winzip. Is there anyway I could change the extension to winzip? Barring that, does anyone know if there is a winzip version of it? The rainmeter in question is SJOGRO Rocks.

Running Windows XP SP2

Thanks for any help!

MJ

Comments (Page 2)

craeonics

on Sep 04, 2005

7-zip has a great commandline (for those that do serious things) and supports lots of formats. WinRar has one distinct advantage over it still: the ability to check the integrity multiple archives at once. Both are power user things, so for the average bloke, it shouldn't really matter what you use.

jazzymjr

on Sep 04, 2005

Thanks, everyone for the suggestions. I downloaded winrar, installed it...and, it behaved itself!

WebGizmos

on Sep 05, 2005

It would be great if ObjectZip was just made to handle all these different compression formats...then we wouldn't have to be getting all these different programs. Thats one feature I would love to see...I've downloaded files before that were of different compression formats but I really don't want numerous programs that I might only use once in awhile...to much clutter.

Island Dog

on Sep 06, 2005

IZArc just release a new beta.

Link

Vailene

on Sep 14, 2005

Just get PowerArchiver....

It's the most complete compression utlitiy I've found and uncompresses just about anything. Um duh? lol

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