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USBDriveLog USBDriveLog is a tool for Windows 10 that displays a log of all USB drives plugged to your computer.For every USB drive event, the following information is displayed: Device Model, Revision, Manufacturer, Serial Number, Plug Time, Unplug Time, Device ID, Device Capacity, and more... USBDriveLog retrieves the information from the following event log channels: Microsoft-Windows-Partition/Diagnostic , Microsoft-Windows-Storsvc/Diagnostic , both channels are turned on by default on Windows 10. USBDriveLog allows you to get the information from your local computer, from remote computer on your network, and from external hard drive. |
| FreeSpaceLogView is a tool for Windows 10 that displays a log of free disk space on your system. This tool only works for NTFS formatted disks. For every log item, the following information is displayed: Volume Name, Volume Guid, Log Time, Lowest Free Space, Highest Free Space, Is Boot Volume (Yes/No). The free space log information is taken from the following event log channel: Microsoft-Windows-Ntfs/Operational FreeSpaceLogView allows you to get the information from your local computer, from remote computer on your network, and from external hard drive. |
TCPConnectProblemView The TCPConnectProblemView tool monitors the TCP connections on your system and displays an alert when a software tries initiate a TCP connection and there is no responseafter a few seconds. When a problem with a TCP connection is detected , TCPConnectProblemView adds a new entry with the following information:Process Name, Process ID, Detected On (date/time), Local Port, Local IP, Remote Port, Remote IP, Remote Host.Optionally you use TCPConnectProblemView in tray icon mode, and when a problem with TCP connection is detected, it'll be displayed in a tray balloon. |
| DNSLookupView is a DNS tracing tool for Windows 10 that allows you to view the details of every DNS query sent through the DNS Client service of Windows.For every DNS lookup, the following information is displayed: Host Name, Query Type (A, AAAA, and so on), Query Status (Error or succeeded), Query Result, Query Timestamp, ID and name of the process that requested the DNS lookup. Be aware that this tool doesn't work on Windows 7 and older systems, because extensive DNS tracing is not supported on these systems. |
OutlookAccountsView OutlookAccountsView displays the details of POP3/IMAP/SMTP accounts configured in Microsoft Outlook.For every account, the following information is displayed:Account Name, Display Name, Email, User Name, Password, Profile Name, Server Address, Server Type, Server Port, and the Registry key where the account information is stored.You can extract the Outlook accounts information from your local system, from external hard drive, and from remote computer on your network (Requires full admin access).In order to view the passwords from external drive or remote computer, you must specify the login password of the user who created the accounts. |
| RuntimeClassesView is a tool for Windows 10 that displays the details of all Windows Runtime classes stored in the Registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsRuntimeActivatableClassId.For every Windows Runtime class, the following information is displayed: Class Name, Filename, Threading, Trust Level, Server, Activation Type, Registry Key, Registry Key Modified Time, Bitness, version information of the DLL file (File Version, File Company, File Description, File Product Name). You can use the Quick Filter option (Ctrl+Q) to easily search the desired Windows Runtime class. |
TraceMenuID TraceMenuID scans all running applications that use the standard menu items of Windows and displays the list of all menu items and their ID. You can use this tool to easily find ID of menu items and then use the ID to execute the menu item using GUIPropView or any other tool that sends WM_COMMAND message.Be aware that many popular applications don't use the standard menu system of Windows and thus this tool won't detect them.Also, some menu items are detected only at the moment you click the menu bar and the menu is displayed on the screen. |
| ExtPassword! is a powerful tool that extracts passwords and other important data from external hard drive of Windows operating system. Currently, ExtPassword! supports the following types of passwords:SMTP/POP3/IMAP/HTTP passwords stored by Microsoft Outlook, Web site passwords stored by Chromium-based Web browsers and Firefox-based Web browsers, Web site passwords stored by Microsoft Edge, SMTP/POP3/IMAP passwords stored by Thunderbird, Dialup/VPN passwords stored by Windows operating system, Passwords stored in Windows Credentials files, wireless network keys stored by Windows operating system, security questions of Windows 10, and product keys of Microsoft products. In order to decrypt all types of passwords, you have to provide the following information: The base path of the external drive (e.g: K: ), login passwords of the users (you can type multiple passwords),Master passwords of Mozilla software (Firefox, Thunderbird). |
DocumentTextExtractor DocumentTextExtractor is a simple tool that allows you to extract text from documents (html files, MS-Office files, pdf files), using the search handlers installed on your system.In order to extract the text from document, simply drag the document file from Explorer window into the main window of DocumentTextExtractor, or use the 'Open Document File'option (Ctrl+O). You can also generate a text file from command-line, for example this command extracts the text from 1.docx and saves it into 1.txt: DocumentTextExtractor.exe /ExtractText c:temp1.docx c:temp1.txt Be aware that this tool works only if the right search filter is installed on your system.In order to extract text from pdf files, you may need to install the PDF iFilter of Adobe. |
| RegHiveBackup is a simple tool for Windows that allows you to easily backup the Registry files on your system into the specified folder.Simply specify the backup folder, the Registry hives to backup (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftware, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystem, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, and others), and thenclick the 'Create Registry Backup' button to create the backup. RegHiveBackup also allows to choose different mode to backup the user Registry hives (ntuser.dat and UsrClass.dat):You can backup the user Registry hives of the user who runs RegHiveBackup, you can choose to backup the Registry hive of another user, oryou can choose to backup the Registry hives of all users on your system. RegHiveBackup works on any version of Windows - from Windows XP and up to Windows 10.Both 32-bit and 64-bit systems are supported. |
SuperfetchView This tool reads the superfetch files of Windows (AgGlGlobalHistory.db, AgGlFaultHistory.db, AgGlFgAppHistory.db, and others)and displays the list of files stored in their records. You can choose to view the list of all files, or only files that don't exist on the disk anymore (deleted files).You can use this tool to read the superfetch files of your current running system or from external disk plugged to your computer.SuperfetchView also allows you to read a superfetch file from command line and then export the records list to a file, for example: |
| BootPerformanceView is a tool for Windows 10/8/7/Vista that displays the performance information of the boot process on your system.The information is taken from the Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational event log. For every boot performance record, the following information is displayed: Boot Start Time, Boot End Time, Boot Time, Main Path Boot Time, Kernel Init Time, Driver Init Time, Devices Init Time, Smss Init Time, User Profile Processing Time, and more... |
ShutdownPerformanceView ShutdownPerformanceView is a tool for Windows that displays the performance information of Windows shutdown process. The information is taken from the Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational event log.For every Windows shutdown performance record, the following information is displayed: Shutdown Start Time, Shutdown End Time, Shutdown Time, User Session Time, User Profiles Time, Services Time, and more... You can view the shutdown performance information on your local system, on remote computer on your network, or load it from external event log file. |
| The IPNeighborsView tool displays the IP neighbor table of your local computer.For every IP neighbor entry, the following information is displayed: IP Address, MAC Address, MAC Address Company, State, State Time, Local Adapter Name, Local Connection Name This tool works on Windows Vista and later. |
EventLogProvidersView This tool displays the list of all event log providers on your system.For every event log provider, the following information is displayed:Provider Name, Message File 1, Message File 2, Resource File, Parameter File, Help Link, Company, Product Name, File Description, File Version |
| Every time that you change the login password on your system, Windows stores the hashes of the previous password in the CREDHIST file (Located in %appdata%MicrosoftProtectCREDHIST ) This tool allows you to decrypt the CREDHIST file and view the SHA1 and NTLM hashes of all previous passwords you used on your system.In order to decrypt the file, you have to provide your latest login password. You can use this tool to decrypt the CREDHIST file on your currently running system, as well as to decrypt the CREDHIST file stored on external hard drive plugged to your computer. |
PasswordHashesView PasswordHashesView is a tool for Windows that displays the SHA1 hash and the NTLM hash of the login password, for users currently logged into your system.This tool works on any version of Windows, starting from Windows XP and up to Windows 10.On Windows 64-bit , you must use the 64-bit version of PasswordHashesView. |
| LostMyPassword is a tool for Windows that allows you to recover a lost password, if it's stored by a software installed on your system.LostMyPassword can extract the passwords from popular programs, including Web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Opera, and more...),POP3/IMAP/SMTP passwords stored by email software (Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, Windows Mail), Dialup/VPN passwords stored by Windows operating system, login passwords of remote computer stored by Windows operating system. You can use the LostMyPassword tool in 2 modes: as normal user, and as Administrator. The Administrator mode is needed for some types of passwords becausethey cannot be decrypted without Administrator privileges. If you have 64-bit system, you should use the 64-bit version of LostMyPassword to ensure that you get all passwords stored on your system. |
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
Download 7-Zip 19.00 (2019-02-21) for Windows:
| Link | Type | Windows | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Download | .exe | 32-bit x86 | 1.2 MB |
| Download | .exe | 64-bit x64 | 1.4 MB |
Download 7-Zip 21.02 alpha (2021-05-06) for Windows:
| Link | Type | Windows | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Download | .exe | 32-bit x86 | 1.2 MB |
| Download | .exe | 64-bit x64 | 1.4 MB |
Download 7-Zip 21.00 alpha for Windows ARM64:
| Download | .exe | 64-bit ARM64 | 1.5 MB |
License
7-Zip is free software with open source. The most of the code is under the GNU LGPL license. Some parts of the code are under the BSD 3-clause License. Also there is unRAR license restriction for some parts of the code. Read 7-Zip License information.
You can use 7-Zip on any computer, including a computer in a commercial organization. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip.
The main features of 7-Zip
- High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression
- Supported formats:
- Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
- Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z.
- For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
- Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
- Self-extracting capability for 7z format
- Integration with Windows Shell
- Powerful File Manager
- Powerful command line version
- Plugin for FAR Manager
- Localizations for 87 languages
7-Zip works in Windows 10 / 8 / 7 / Vista / XP / 2019 / 2016 / 2012 / 2008 / 2003 / 2000.
Alpha Zip
p7zip - the port of the command line version of 7-Zip to Linux/Posix.
On 7-Zip's SourceForge Page you can find a forum, bug reports, and feature request systems.
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Compression ratio
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We compared 7-Zip with WinRAR 5.20.
FILE SETS: Mozilla Firefox 34.0.5 for Windows and Google Earth 6.2.2.6613 for Windows.
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| Archiver | Mozilla Firefox | Google Earth | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65 files 85 280 391 bytes | 483 files 110 700 519 bytes | |||
| Compressed size | Ratio | Compressed size | Ratio | |
| 7-Zip 9.35 -mx | 39 357 375 | 100% | 15 964 369 | 100% |
| WinRAR 5.20 -m5 -s -ma5 -md128m | 41 789 543 | 106% | 17 035 432 | 107% |
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Compression ratio results are very dependent upon the data used for the tests. Usually, 7-Zip compresses to 7z format 30-70% better than to zip format. And 7-Zip compresses to zip format 2-10% better than most of other zip compatible programs.