Win Zip ?

[jrtv]

is there a free program that does the same as winzip ?

[ChuckFickens]

7zip

http://www.7-zip.org/

[ChuckFickens]

BTW, unless you need to make or extract things like RAR files then you don't need any extra software, all recent versions of windows deal with ZIP files natively.

[Wak]

I use ZIPCENTRAL which is good and FREE

[jrtv]

Thanks guy's, all working again.

[beso]

AFAIK Windows Zip can't make a password protected zip file so 7-zip is a good choice if you need that.

[ZebUK]

I also go with 7zip although I do have winrar installed but only because there are *some* rar files that are split over multiple files where the checksum is reported incorrectly by 7zip.