What is .7z file extension?
The 7z compressed files use open architecture and therefore, can also support any new compression method. The 7z files have a high compression ratio and can support large file sizes upto 16,000,000,000 GB, .7z files are created by 7-Zip, a file archiver with a high compression ratio for ZIP & GZIP formats and can be decompressed using either the 7-Zip software or Windows file compression and decompression applications like WinZIP. The official .7z file format specification is distributed with 7-Zip's source code and these 7z files are appended with the .7z extension. The specification of the .7z file are located in the 'doc' sub-directory of the source code distribution in plain text format.
You can see a list of software programs here on www.easyfileopener.org that can open this file type so that you don’t need to search for it on the web. You can then open your file with this extension using a software listed below.