Whats best/fastest for file compression WinZip, WinRar or something else?”
WinZip is faster than WinRar, but WinRar has some more features: 1) With WinRar you can split huge files into smaller files. So if you have a file of size 50 MB and you want to send it by email you can use WinRar to split it into several files of maximum size 10 MB that you can the email it. 2) You can make files password protected with WinRar. Then nobody can access the file unless they have the password for that file. There is another file compression program called WinAce but that has not much advantage to either one of these, except for when you want to compress video files. It is a bit faster than WinRar. I found the following article that they have done a thorough comparison between these three programs. Here are a few things that they found: The keyword for WinZip on this chapter is: Speed! This is the only thing WinZip is really good at. In all tests, for video, audio, image and text, WinZip was the winner on compression time. The video was compressed 3 times faster (at maximum
