Yes — what 7zip has going for it is that it’s free, good format support and probably usually slightly better compression ratio. But that’s basically it. WinRAR

Yes — what 7zip has going for it is that it’s free, good format support and probably usually slightly better compression ratio. But that’s basically it. WinRAR is a very competent archiver tool where you might prefer it for many reasons. One annoyance I have with 7zip is its surprising number of non-implemented features. Just today I tried dragging a file to replace an existing and got the message “access denied”. That was like code for “not supported” because deleting the file first worked. Sometimes you do get sudden “not implemented” though for the most basic operations even after all these years. I’m not dissing Igor Pavlov. He’s a very skilled developer as for compression format development. But he ought to get some assistance on the archiver software front.