NanaZip
The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience (by M2Team)
EverythingToolbar
Everything integration for the Windows taskbar. [Moved to: https://github.com/srwi/EverythingToolbar] (by stnkl)
| NanaZip | EverythingToolbar | |
|---|---|---|
| 76 | 59 | |
| 11,058 | 5,608 | |
| 2.6% | - | |
| 9.6 | 7.9 | |
| 12 days ago | over 2 years ago | |
| C++ | C# | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
NanaZip
Posts with mentions or reviews of NanaZip.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-07-09.
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7-Zip for Windows can now use more than 64 CPU threads for compression
https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip
It includes the above patches as well as few QoL features.
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7-Zip 25.00
There is also NanaZip which aims to be a more modern Windows application and I think also incorporates the additions of the 7zs fork https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip
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Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia
1: https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip
- WinRAR musste shady werden.
- WinRAR sold 5,449 licenses in a day
- Am I crazy, or does every linux distro just have all these compression algs included?
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my rarbg magnet backup (268k)
If you have Windows 10 or above, you should instead use NanaZip instead of 7-Zip-zstd. It is a massively improved fork of 7-Zip.
- 28 years later, Windows finally supports RAR files
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of VLC - A Comprehensive Exploration of a Multimedia Powerhouse
The first part of modernizing is port everything to XAML, adding dark mode and others. It's expected to be during this year, new UI in 2024. It's in their roadmap in GitHub
- NanaZip: The 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience
EverythingToolbar
Posts with mentions or reviews of EverythingToolbar.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-10.
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Windows Terminal is now the default Windows 11 22H2 console
Link for the lazy: https://github.com/stnkl/EverythingToolbar
- EverythingToolbar 1.0 for Windows 11 is out
- EverythingToolbar 1.0
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Software using fluid design guidelines?
Twinkle Tray, ByteStream Torrent, EverythingToolbar to name a few
- EverythingToolbar releases version 1.0.0
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Searching "explorer" in search tab brings up Edge instead of File Explorer
this is amazing : https://github.com/stnkl/EverythingToolbar
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Why is Windows 10 such garbage when it comes to searching for programs installed to your machine??
And this
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Creating a Script That Allows Everything (Program) to Have Administrator Privileges on Startup...
Lastly, if you use the Windows search feature, EverythingToolbar is an awesome companion worth checking out.
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Who seriously thought this looked good and could be shipped? :)
There's also EverythingToolbar and Windows 11 support is currently available in the beta here.
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Make LWin activate the EverythingToolbar
So I just got the EverythingToolbar thanks to this unexpected treasure trove, and I would love for the Windows key to open it instead of the Start Menu, but I couldn't figure out how to do this.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing NanaZip and EverythingToolbar you can also consider the following projects:
7z - Because 7-zip source code was in a 7z archive [mirror]
Flow.Launcher - :mag: Quick file search & app launcher for Windows with community-made plugins
PeaZip - Free Zip / Unzip software and Rar file extractor. Cross-platform file and archive manager. Features volume spanning, compression, authenticated encryption. Supports 7Z, 7-Zip sfx, ACE, ARJ, Brotli, BZ2, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LHA/LZH, NSIS, OOo, PAQ/LPAQ, PEA, QUAD, RAR, RPM, split, TAR, Z, ZIP, ZIPX, Zstandard.
Wox - A cross-platform launcher that simply works
7-Zip - 7-Zip source code repository
audio-band - Display and control songs from the Windows taskbar