ZIP RAR

Most of us have used WinZip to handle zip files. It doesn't handle RAR files, so WinRAR is required. Similarly there are separate tools for handling ISO files.
There is one Open Source Software, which handles these all; and in addition there are more formats supported. 7-Zip is available at http://www.7-zip.org/. This is a good replacement for commercial versions of popular archiving softwares.

This is the feature list as per 7-Zip site:

• High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
• Supported formats:
  Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
  Unpacking only: RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS
• For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
• Self-extracting capability for 7z format
• Integration with Windows Shell
• Powerful File Manager
• Powerful command line version
• Plugin for FAR Manager
• Localizations for 63 languages

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ExplorerXP

The standard Windows Explorer has a Tree View for folders and a List View for folder and file listing. Only one folder can be "explored" at a time. FireFox made Tabbed browsing polular, and off late, Internet Explorer has introduced tabbed browsing in Release 7. Windows Explorer still lacks this feature.


There are softwares where more than one folder view is available in verticle or horizontal split.


2xExplorer has been there since long with a scaled down version for non-commercial use:
2xExplorer Site





There is another recent entry with similar feature:
ExplorerXP



Sooner or later, Windows Explorer will have to introduce this feature.