Windows 11 to Include Native Support for 7-Zip, RAR, and Other Compression Formats

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  1. Hilbert Hagedoorn

    Hilbert Hagedoorn Don Vito Corleone Staff Member

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    TheDeeGee Ancient Guru

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    That's pretty big actually.

    I'm still using WinRAR to this day, it's standard software i install.
     
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    heffeque Ancient Guru

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    Why install WinRAR when 7-zip exists?
    It's much more powerful, it works with all WinRAR formats and more, it's open source, and it's free!
     
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    TheDeeGee Ancient Guru

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    Old habbits, and i has nice fan made skins on Deviantart.
     
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  5. reix2x

    reix2x Master Guru

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    i just changed to 7z from WinRAR like 2 years ago, i still miss it sometimes, i have even paid for it. in my case i will use this future feature on W11 only if it have the options to silently extract to certain folder or in the same place, i won't follow a wizard just to extract a compressed file.
     
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    I don't understand what took them so long. This should've been done since the first release of Windows 7, or really even Vista.

    I guess my main concern is if it'll receive the same inefficient and bloated treatment that so many other MS products get. I wouldn't be surprised if it still makes sense to install 3rd party tools for the sake of performance.

    I also don't get why anyone would use WinRAR for all this time. Must've been at least a decade since I installed it, on any machine.
     
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    Took them years for this. And now it is or advertised as a awesome feature?
    Ah, now I understand.
    They sent the message or the news using Internet Explorer and reached today the news. :p:D
     
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    Wow great itll be just as useless (but noob friendly) as Windows zip integration, where you must leave the archive folder open to cut copy paste.

    Winrar is going nowhere.
     
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    7Zip has nice benchmark.
     
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    That's really good news.:)
    Now, how about a virtual rom drive, to be the icing on the cake.
    Hmm, what else?
     

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    What is virtual ROM drive?
     
  12. Passus

    Passus Ancient Guru

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    It already does? so does win 10

    just right click any .iso and click mount
     
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    Eer, its been so long since I last used one.
    But you rip your game from the disc CD/DVD via rom drive and then mount the game to run virtually. Without the need to put the game disc into the rom drive to play..
    @Passus
    Ah, hay ho, no rom drive at the mo, I must hunt one down, probs one in the attic. :)
     
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    Windows will support already outdated compression formats that have been superseded by xz and zstd. Impressive :p

    Microsoft sure is slow about these things, aren't they. Remember how long it took them to support FLAC audio?
     
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    Well PCM is king.
    EDIT: No I did not say that, dont bite. :)
     
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    Daemon Tools still needed sadly due to only supporting ISO's.
     
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    microsoft logic, "we do it and you will like it"

    fact microsoft didnt support that was only 1 reason why i refused to do any decompression or compression with there tool
     
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    Windows 10 can mount ISOs natively last I checked.
     
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    This has been working since Windows 8.
     
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    I use WinRAR it always works so why switch?
     

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