WinZip has become the recommended choice for compressing and decompressing files and folders. This is all due to its manageability and the number of actions you can perform with the click of a mouse.

WinZip adds a number of compression formats such as .TAR, .GZIP, UUencode, XXencode, BinHex, MIME, .ARJ, .LZH, .ARC, etc., in addition to the usual support for .ZIP and .RAR files. It also provides some shortcut features that make the compression and decompression tasks much easier.

Arguably one of the most valuable is to add options to the explorer context menu to access various commands related to program actions. You can also use antivirus software such as McAfee or Norton to better manage files in your favorite folders and keep viruses away.

All of this and much more have made WinZip the user’s favorite program for file compression.