I stopped trusting download sizes and started checking the hash.

In my adaptation of the Java code into the Groovy script shown above, I left most of the exception handling in place. Although Groovy allows exceptions to be ignored whether they are checked or ...

Developer Igor Pavlov has released a new version of 7-Zip, his long-standing and hugely popular file archiving tool. The 25th edition of the software introduces improvements in compression speed and ...

WinRAR is pretty good, but 7-Zip is better.

7-zip has finally added support for the long-requested 'Mark-of-the-Web' Windows security feature, providing better protection from malicious downloaded files. When you download documents and ...

Aaron Greenbaum has a B.S.E in mechanical engineering and an M.S. in rehabilitation technology. However, in school, he enjoyed writing about technology more than designing it. So in 2016, he became a ...

Microsoft deserves some praise for the native file archive on Windows 11. Performance aside, 7-Zip found itself playing catch-up with Windows 11 as the app recently received Zstd support. Microsoft ...

Earlier this year, we reported on Microsoft expanding its compression support in Windows 11 to include native RAR, 7-Zip, and other file formats that aren't your basic ZIP files. For those that have ...