Do I use archive.exe instead of a.exe? And if I do that, I get an error saying archive.exe is not a supported archive type. I need to compress the setup.exe file so I use the following script. Now further down in the documentation it tells you how to add a file. Here is how the config.txt file look like: 4.00"īeginPrompt="Do you want to install the 7-Zip will generate archive.exe. This will generate an archive.exe that will have the config.txt file to run the appropriate program. Here is where I'm stuck first to create an SFX file you need to call the following script: copy /b 7zS.sfx + config.txt + archive.7z archive.exe I'm using the 7-Zip 32 bit and the 7-Zip extra 32 bit. I followed the documentation, but I wasn't able to get any close. Pros: Solid performance potential to produce more efficient zipping.Ĭons: Unspectacular overall slower than some rivals.Ĭonclusions: As good if not better than any other free product and certainly worth trying before splashing the cash.I'm playing around with 7-Zip to create a self-extracting archive (SFX) executable. But whether any of these limitations are enough to be a problem given it's a free application depends on how often you'll be using it. It's decent but not great in every category: for example, its menu system and integration with Windows Explorer works well enough but aren't particularly smooth or intuitive.
Indeed, that's largely the story of 7-Zip. It's not as lightning-fast as some of the commercial options however. The program is quick enough to zip files: on a decent-specification Windows 7 machine it managed to process around 180 Megabytes in a minute. In practice its zipped files are indeed consistently smaller, though by how much is very variable and dependent on the type of file concerned. The main selling-point of the application is a custom 7z format which is billed as creating files up to 40 percent smaller than those of more common zipping techniques. It's also capable of working with a wide variety of formats, including a couple that are mainly used on Linux computers, making this a handy utility for those with a dual-boot set-up. There's certainly nothing to complain about with the software: it works reliably and doesn't cause any performance problems or crashes. 7-Zip certainly holds its own but it struggles to stand out on anything but price. As faster internet connections and bigger hard drives mean files sizes continue to increase, the world of zipping utilities is a crowded market.
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