Simplyzip is a nice multi archiver. It does not write any entries to the registry or anywhere else. Version 1.1 has been rewritten from scratch. Open: ZIP, CZIP, ACE, CAB, RAR, TAR, GZIP, LZH, BZ2, SQX, RS, UUE, XXE, BASE64, UCL, ARJ, ZLIB, ALIB, RPM, DEB, 7-ZIP. Create: 7z, ZIP, CZIP, Cab, LHA, TAR, TAR GZ TAR BZ2, ACE (optionale DLL), Deepfreezer, SQX, UCL, RS, ZIP-SFX/LHA-SFX, RAR-SFX, UUE/XXE, ZLIB and Base64. Multi-ZIP. Backup to disk (e.g. CD). ZIP-Rpair. Crypt files with: Rijndael AES/Twofish (both 256bit keysize) and Blowfish (448bit keysize) incl SFX creator and an ArcConverter.

FreeArc is a modern general-purpose archiver. Main advantage of FreeArc is fast but efficient compression and rich set of features. FreeArc works 1.5?3 times faster than best compression programs. Includes LZMA, PPMD, TrueAudio and generic Multimedia compression algorithms with automatic switching by file type. Filters that further improve compression: REP (finds repetitions at the distances up to 1gb), DICT (dictionary replacements for texts), DELTA (improves compression of tables in binary data), BCJ (executables preproccesor) and LZP (removes repetitions in texts). Last version also can make ZIP and 7Z archives.