is winrar the best zipper?

ive been using winrar for awhile, but id like to try something else maybe zip genius, is winrar better, does it compress more the zip genius will?
also i downloaded winrar launcher the other day if you are interested
www.winrar-tools.com/
the server must be down the page was timed-out, you can read avout it at this link
http://www.dirfile.com/winrar_launcher.htm

 

I like 7-zip http://www.7-zip.org/ in some cases it provides even better compression than a solid rar archive.

This site has a comprehensive comparison of compression formats http://www.maximumcompression.com/

Zip is an out of date format that doesn't support solid archives, so any zip file will always be bigger than a Rar Ace or 7z. Zip files are a pet hate of mine as vast amounts of bandwidth is wasted by using them

 

thanks, sard. i'll take alook at it
i had taken a look at tugzip but it was so complicated to set up i uninstalled it

 

tugzip looks interesting, nice find.

 

the only problem with it, is that you need to download winrar too, so you can remove winrar's exe to tugzip's folder, then i think there was something else you needed to do after that
anyway, i downloaded 7-zip after removing winrar with a reboot. but my zipper folders look like the default winxp zippers, is that how its supposed to look like?

 

i just redownloaded tugzip, i'll give it one more go, maybe i'll read the readme abit more closely this time

 

I got ZipCentral free from my IP, and it works just as well as winzip but free forever. It actually looks a lot like winzip

 

thanks for your help, but after installing about 10 different zippers, then rebooting i went back to winrar. because the others wouldnt associate their formats with all of winrar's