compression to temp, can it be avoided?

I'm looking for compression software that doesn't write to the temp directory on your C drive an then copy it to the file location that you specified.

Its really getting annoying wait 3-5min for it to uncompress and then waiting another 3-5 min as it transfers to a different hard drive or partition.

If it handles multiple formats, mainly *.rar and *.zip, that would be a bonus.

I believe Winrar does it in memory and is easily cracked. This is one of several areas where 7zip fails.

pkunzip lol

I use winrar currently.  It unrars to your user temp file for windows.  For now I made a new temp directory on my storage drive which should save em time for most of my uncompressing needs.

All I know is that I once had a 15GB archive I needed to extract to my storage drive and 7zip couldn't do it because it wanted to extract to the drive the archive was on first and there wasn't enough space. Winrar had no problems.

in winrar:
options > settings > paths
clear the temp file path.

if that doesn't help, winrar is just being retarded. there is no reason to use temp files except maybe when writing to floppies or flash media.

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Great thanks for the tip.  I didn't think it would let me leave it cleared.

Info-zip commandline zip -9 produces the smallest .zip archives and writes its tempfile directly to target path (renaming it to target filename when done).

Best zip tool.