Review
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ZipItFree supports over 15 compression formats, Including (ACE, ARC, BH, BZip, CAB, GZIP, JAR, LHA, RAR, TAR, UUE, XXE, ZIP,Zoo, And Archive Stream). With ZipItFree easy to use modern interface it making works with archives is fun and easy. The ZipItFree windows integration gives you One Click capability for most of compression functions like Extract Here, Zip & Email.
The following review written by one of the Software Informer contributors applies to version 1.8
ZipItFree is a free file compression utility. With this tool, you can open, extract and create compressed files, including ZIP, RAR and ACE. It’s a basic free alternative to WinZip, WinRAR and PowerArchiver. You can use it, for instance, to compress your birthday photos in a single file or to open the book collection you bought online.
This small utility can manage the most popular file compression formats including ACE, ARC, BH, BZip, CAB, GZIP, JAR, LHA, RAR, TAR, UUE, XXE, ZIP, Zoo and Archive Stream. Unfortunately, it doesn’t support 7z archives, so that’s for our wish list.
It has the famous Black Hole compression format, providing high compression ratio and fast decompression. It’s said to have the safest encryption algorithm named ZipV2, even hundreds of times safer than the leading AES encryption.
One interesting feature is the ability to add comments to your compressed files. This is useful, for example, when you download a RAR archive with a weird name and after a week you wonder what that piece of data occupying valuable hard disk space is!
The program's interface is slightly different from a standard one, so at first glance you may be clueless about it. But it’s intuitive enough to start using it after a few seconds of meditation. Anyway, there’s a flash animation online showing how to perform the basic tasks, like creating or opening compressed archives and so on. To watch it, you just need to click on the Quick Help link, and of course have an Internet connection.
This program runs under all Windows versions, including Vista, XP, 2000, ME, 98, 95 and NT4. However, you may find some compatibility issues with Vista like error dialogs and some RAR archives that you can’t open. Excluding these bugs, the null support of 7z archives and the fact that it’s only available in English, ZipItFree is a good basic utility to manage your compressed files. If you are trying this utility, you may also want to try other free alternatives like ALZip, 7zip and QuickZip. |
