![]() Tests on my Intel-based laptop showed virtually the same result, proving that third-party apps are much better and faster at decompressing files than the upgraded File Explorer. Oof!ħZ added insult to injury: File Explorer took nearly nine minutes to extract, while WinRAR and NanaZIP finished in about one minute. RAR was next, and it immediately tripped File Explorer, causing it to complete the process in almost six minutes, more than three times slower than WinRAR and two times more than NanaZIP. The experiment revealed that File Explorer had no problems extracting TAR archives and could keep up with WinRAR and NanaZIP: all three finished in about 80 seconds, an unsurprising result considering the nature of TAR format. Keep in mind that my goal was to see the performance difference between apps, not to find another reason to upgrade my computers, which I did anyway since the Zen+ architecture is starting to show its age, and I need a better CPU for the upcoming Forza Motorsport release. Then, I repeated the process on my laptop with the Intel Core i3-1125G4, 16GB DDR4-3200, and a 500GB NVMe SSD. Now, it is time to unpack the archives and measure the time it takes for Windows 11's File Explorer, WinRAR, and NanaZIP to complete the job.Įach app went through three tests to get the average result on my desktop PC with the Ry(I will upgrade to 5600 in a few days), 32GB DDR4-3200, NVIDIA RTX 4060, and Samsung 980 SSD 500GB. I downloaded Microsoft's massive 24GB free Windows 11 virtual machine and packed its files into three previously unsupported formats: RAR, 7Z (50% compression rate), and TAR. To answer the question, I decided to test the updated File Explorer versus WinRAR, arguably the most popular app of its kind ( which is honored by the change), and NanaZIP, a great fork of 7Zip for Windows 11. Still, the change raises a question: Can the updated File Explorer replace WinRAR, 7Zip, NanaZIP, and other dedicated apps for those frequently working with archives? Even though there is no shortage of free and premium file compression apps, native support is always better for the average consumer-you do not need to look for a program to extract a single randomly downloaded archive. Therefore, users had to opt for third-party apps to work with RAR, 7Z, etc. ![]() Although there are concerns about performance and bugs, in this article, I want to focus on the positive side and look closely at one of the best new features the redesigned File Explorer will introduce: native RAR, TAR, 7Z, and other file compression format support.īefore Windows 11 version 23H2, ZIP was the only natively supported archive format. Version 23H2 is expected to introduce many quality-of-life improvements and new capabilities, including a File Explorer redesign. So.Microsoft plans to release a big feature update for Windows 11 later this year. I expect that 7zip able to compress the folder around 20% better than winrar, but fact is fact. I don’t expect 7zip to beat winrar this bad actually. I am pretty surprise with this result honestly. So, from almost 80 MB, 7zip able to compress the whole folder to merely 14 MB. 43% of what winrar could do (in term of size). Enough with this blubbering, let see the result. 7zip is a free and open source (this is the best part, nothing to hide, they even could provide you the whole source code if you need), no nagging screen, uber small size and under opensourge umbrella. 7zip able to support rar and zip, it is not zip format. So is it worth to spend some money to get this software? Hold on until you see what 7zip can do.ħzip is not zip. 32.3 MB vs 35.3 MB (3 MB smaller than normal windows pre-installed zip compressor.). Yay, WinRar able to shrink the files better. After that, it will keep showing the nag screen until you purchase the software, unless you crack it :D) You may download it from the rarlab with 30 days trial period. Let see if it still able to amuse us with its magic (Winrar is not a free software. Now, let move on to all time exotic compressor, named winrar. Default format for this kind of compression is zip.Īs you might see, Windows zip compressor, compress 79.6 MB files into 35.3 MB. OK, now let compress it using windows compression utility (Via right click on that folder –> Send To –> Compress Folder). ![]() Folder size 79.6 MB but will cost me 84 MB on my hdd (4kb cluster NTFS).įor those who are interested to know what folder it is, it is 4th planet patch folder for Rose Online game. Here is the original folder, consist of 1370 files and 126 folder. ![]() compressor like PowerArchiever, WinAce etc) (You can do yours to compare with your fav. When you want to compress your files and folders, are you still using plain windows zip utility? Or already move to more exotic paid program like WinRar? Or you actually already join free and open source community, using 7zip? For this very own purpose, I made a short complete test. ![]()
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