It turns out that unpacking files with the .RAR, .7z, .GZ extensions and other extensions built into Windows 11 is several times slower than the free WinRAR and NanaZIP programs. In this respect informs edition, with reference to the data of their own tests.
Native support for files in these formats appeared in one of the latest test builds of Windows 11. During Neowin tests, the built-in utility did not perform well.
For example, the standard Windows 11 tool took three times longer than WinRAR to open a 24GB .RAR file. With the .7z format, the utility coped with worse: it took about nine minutes to open a file of the same size. WinRAR and NanaZIP got the job done in a minute.
The only format that Windows 11 processed almost as fast as WinRAR was .GZ. Both programs decompressed the file in about a minute.
Neowin conducted tests on a computer with a Ryzen 5 2600 processor, 32GB of RAM, Nvidia RTX 4060 graphics and a 500GB Samsung 980 SSD hard drive.
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