I need one of these programs to be able to install certain mods where you need to extract files, etc. The 7-zip looks like it's free and Win-RAR is $30 a year. Can anyone recommend one or the other?? Thanks!

7-zip is free and so in my books is the one to choose. Win-Rar was good, I liked it and was comfortable with it (during the trial period). I honestly don't get why something like this doesn't come with Windows. But anyways, let's not go down that road.

7-zip is what I use and it works great.

Thanks for the reply! I was watching one of Gopher's Vids on Youtube and he was using the Win-RAR but posted links to that AND the 7zip. FREE is great in my book too!

WinRAR is free, I've been using the trial version for years.

How did you manage that?

Just close the little message telling you the trial is over. It lets you keep using it.

That's some terrible design right there

I know. I laughed pretty hard at the "trial".

Lol, now that is awesome

I use jzip. It does the job fine for me. It's a free program.