Where to download 7-zip or winzip

[satimis]

Hi folks,

Win7 64 bit

Please advise where can I download a free version Winzip? I download a trial version on following site.
https://shopm.winzip.com/cgi-bin/wzct1d.cgi

Or a free version 7-zip. TIA

B.R.
satimis

 

[freaky88]

Download 7-Zip 9.15 Beta (64-bit) - FileHippo.com

 

[Night Hawk]

WinRAR is another good alternative to WinZip since that also support other types of archive files. WinRAR download and support. WinRAR is a powerful Windows tool to compress and decompress zip, rar and many other formats: Download now

The main site for 7-Zip is seen at 7-Zip | The Best Zip Compression Utility

 

[bobtran]

Actually the home of 7zip is (7zip.org): 7-Zip

 

[DirtRider]

I have always like this one as I can carry it around with me and not have to install it on any PC 7-Zip Portable | PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives

 

[Night Hawk]

Actually the home of 7zip is (7zip.org): 7-Zip

I knew it was seen at SorceForge some time back. The comparisons at this site are worth the look however between various programs. 7-Zip | The Best Zip Compression Utility

I have always like this one as I can carry it around with me and not have to install it on any PC 7-Zip Portable | PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives

That is one to keep track of there for sure. I have someone asking for portable apps quite often!

As for WinRar the trial doesn't have a time limit. You simply have to click the continue button until getting the full version. That goes right on both the 64bit as well as the 32bit XP, Vista, 7 without problems as a good alternate.

 

[satimis]

Hi folks,

Thanks for your advice.

I have 7-zip portable installed on User desktop.

B.R.
satimis

 

[DirtRider]

Love these portable apps have then all on my flash drive

 

[Night Hawk]

Love these portable apps have then all on my flash drive

Someone asked me once about how to run another OS while booted on someone else's machine and running Windows without installing anything. The answer?
Portable Virtual Box! (run from flash drive)

 

[satimis]

Love these portable apps have then all on my flash drive

Someone asked me once about how to run another OS while booted on someone else's machine and running Windows without installing anything. The answer?
Portable Virtual Box! (run from flash drive)

Hi Night Hawk,

That is TRUE, not a joke.

I did it 4~5 years ago. Running Linux, full version, on an USB thumb drive. It worked seamlessly. 4~5 years ago the USB thumb drive was very expensive. I have to make heavy compression on the OS for installing the complete Linux OS on a 1G thumb drive. On running the Linux OS on another PC (of course it must support boot at USB drive) heavy and quick decompression was necessary. You can find all necessary stuffs on Open Source, free to use.

I haven't tested Windows portable. I think it should work but needs a big size USB thumb drive for installation. I have no idea on the speed in running portable Windows.

I did OpenOffice portable before on an USB thumb drive. It also works without problem but slow.

B.R.
satimis

 

[Night Hawk]

What I was referring to there was not a custom install of any distro to the flash drive itself which I have done here several times already on flash drive upto 32gb in size with a frist NTFS data recovery partition in fact but running an OS using a portable VM program like the Portable version of VBox.

That was found last summer for seeing 7 run from a flash drive for people anxious for a look then while still in RC mostly. For any custom install of a Windows to work it would need to at least a 16gb flash drive note while the x86 ubuntu 9.10 install used up 2 1/4gb of space actually 2.17gb approximate on a 4gb model.

The idea of course which doesn't work well for Windows there was to have a portable OS without any installation of anything to machines being worked on. For that solution the Oracle's Portable version did the task!

 

[satimis]

Hi,

I did it 4~5 years ago solely for testing. A full version of Debian was installed on a 1G thumb drive, not the DamnSmallLinux nor the Feather Weight Linux. There was a heavy compression software(Open Source).

I fail to see what will be the use of Portable OS? I'm NOT allowed to reset the BIOS of a PC which is NOT owned by me. If for testing several OS I can go virtualization. I have a KVM box here running 20 VMs with 4G RAM on board. I also have a VBox PC here running >30 VMs with 8G RAM on board. Most VMs run Linux/Unix OS with a few Windows OS. Windows are resource hog especially MS Exchange Server it needs at least 4G RAM to work.

Edit:
I suppose it is possible to make Windows portable running on an USB thumb drive through heavy testing. But what will be the advantage to inject such time and effort? Finally I have to pay another licence fee.

B.R.
satimis

 

[Night Hawk]

On many boards you simply press the assigned F key to bring up the boot device menu where you simply select the flash drive for the one time boot. The distro used by the person who made the inquiry is OpenSUSe mainly which he works with often over any other distro.

The purpose there was to be able to run the various tools for the other OS when checking out hardwares and other security tools and not worry about catching any bugs found on a machine looked at and spread later to his own. I could follow the rational there easy enough.