7-Zip Portable 4.65 Revision 2 has been released. It's the the popular 7-Zip packaged as a portable app, so you can take your file archiver with you and work with your compressed 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR files and more on the go. This release adds Windows 7 support, is updated to the latest PortableApps.com Format and has an improved installer. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format for easy use from any portable device and integration with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.
Read on for more details...
Features
7-Zip is a file archiver (compression) utility for Windows with a great array of features including:
- High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
- Supported formats:
- Pack / unpack: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
- Unpack only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB & NSIS
- For ZIP and GZIP formats 7-Zip provides compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
- Self-extracting capability for 7z format
- Powerful File Manager
- Localizations for 63 languages
New in This Release
This release updates to the latest PortableApps.com Format, adds Windows 7 support and has an improved installer.
PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format
7-Zip Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.
Download
7-Zip Portable is available for immediate download from the 7-Zip Portable homepage. Get it today!
Comments
thanks
thanks
The icon
Hi
Why does the installer has the icon of the portableapps installer instead of the 7zip icon?
That the way
it is now.
All installers have the same Icon.
Thanks John :-)
Thanks John
64bit version
could we have a 64bit version as well, please?
64 bit would not truly be
64 bit would not truly be portable, as it would only be able to run on 64 bit machines (a vast minority). You can try replacing the files in /App/7-Zip with 64 bit binaries but 64 bit will probably never be officially supported here. Also, this should have gone in the forums, not as a comment on a release.
Can be
Take a look at how JkDefrag works; it has 32- and 64-bit versions included in it.
However, that's a different case. I don't believe that JkDefrag 32-bit works on 64-bit OSes due to what it does, but 7-Zip 32 does. Hence, there is no real need to include the 64-bit version (as well as the 32-bit version) so because it would double the size of the application (estimate), it's highly unlikely to happen.
Discussion in Forums
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