How to open a 7z file

by Jane On March 11, 2009 | Utilities | Hits: 212

Software you need: 7-Zip

7z is the new archive format, providing high compression ratio.

The main features of 7z format:

* Open architecture

* High compression ratio

* Strong AES-256 encryption

* Ability of using any compression, conversion or encryption method

* Supporting files with sizes up to 16000000000 GB

* Unicode file names

* Solid compressing

* Archive headers compressing

LZMA is default and general compression method of 7z format. The main features of LZMA method:

* High compression ratio

* Variable dictionary size (up to 4 GB)

* Compressing speed: about 1 MB/s on 2 GHz CPU

* Decompressing speed: about 10-20 MB/s on 2 GHz CPU

* Small memory requirements for decompressing (depend from dictionary size)

* Small code size for decompressing: about 5 KB

* Supporting multi-threading and P4's hyper-threading

How to open a 7z file

7-Zip is an open source file archiver designed originally for Microsoft Windows. 7-Zip operates primarily with the 7z archive format, as well as being able to read and write to several other archive formats.

Tags: 7-Zip, 7z, file archiver

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