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Pros

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Mark Arnold
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Free and open source

7-Zip is licensed under GNU LGPL, and the *.7z format has support across all major operating systems. There should be no trouble opening the archives under any operating system, and no need to deal with messages bugging you to register or pay for the app. Source code can be found here.

Andris Pelcbergs
Mark Arnold

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High compression .7z format

Their own file format .7z that ships with 7-Zip is one of the best compression formats. 7z file format is usually more compact than Zip.

Andris Pelcbergs

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Lightweight

Starts quickly.

Brian Ernst

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Very fast compression/decompression.

7z is muli-threaded, allowing it to do very fast compression and decompression.

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Unobtrusive

No nag screen.

Andris Pelcbergs

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Explorer right-click menu integration

Makes it easy to open any archive file, or create new archives, without having to go open another program first.

Cons

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Does not support data recovery 

It's not possible with 7-zip to add data recovery records to the archive which could repair minor integrity errors.

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