I used to use Ultimate Zip as default archiver on my system but the versions higher than 2.6 of this software became shareware with the little banner popup which I didn't like and I stert searching for alternative. I testet about ten different freeware archivers before I saw the one that I liked and I use it now and recomend it to you. This is IZArc archiver.

See the website of this archiver here and download it here