At the top, you will find three main options—Add, Convert, and Extract. Selecting the Add option allows you to archive files, ...

Occasionally, you'll need to open several compressed files from one ZIP folder. While Windows does a fine job extracting, there are better tools to unzip.

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

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.

To open an IMG file and view the contents in Windows 7, you need a third-party file extraction program such as WinRar or 7-Zip.