Windows 11 to Include Native Support for 7-Zip, RAR, and Other Compression Formats
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TheDeeGee
That's pretty big actually.
I'm still using WinRAR to this day, it's standard software i install.
heffeque
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!
TheDeeGee
Old habbits, and i has nice fan made skins on Deviantart.
reix2x
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.
schmidtbag
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.
anticupidon
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. 😛:D
TimmyP
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.
mbk1969
7Zip has nice benchmark.
vestibule
That's really good news.:)
Now, how about a virtual rom drive, to be the icing on the cake.
Hmm, what else?
mbk1969
What is virtual ROM drive?
Passus
It already does? so does win 10
just right click any .iso and click mount
vestibule
@mbk1969
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. 🙂
RealNC
Windows will support already outdated compression formats that have been superseded by xz and zstd.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?
vestibule
Well PCM is king.
EDIT: No I did not say that, dont bite. 🙂
TheDeeGee
Daemon Tools still needed sadly due to only supporting ISO's.
tsunami231
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
schmidtbag
Windows 10 can mount ISOs natively last I checked.
aufkrawall2
This has been working since Windows 8.
SplashDown
I use WinRAR it always works so why switch?
vestibule
Hold on Lads.
So I have just fitted a rom drive and I have ripped TR3 from the cd into a folder and it does not matter what I right click on nothing is coming up to mount the game virtually and nothing iso is showing either.
Hmmm. 🙁 😕
