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You can apply password protection to packaged archives and split them into volumes, which is handy for sharing particularly large archives. The only key feature it's missing is the ability to repair damaged archives - other than that, it's a truly exceptional program. PeaZip's standard installation will make file associations and add context menu options automatically, which you might not want if you're trying it for the first time.

Select 'Custom' if you want to make your own choices. PeaZip is compatible with pretty much every compressed file format there is. PEA, its own format, prioritizes security over compression, with optional integrity check and authenticated encryption. Unlike 7-Zip, it can repair damaged archives. Its handy extra features include the ability to convert archive formats and test archives for errors. It can't batch compress or watermark images as some of the other tools here can, but can rotate and crop them for you.

Many free Winzip alternatives hide their best features behind a complex system of menus. Ashampoo Zip Free is a rare exception, with a clear interface and an optional touch mode with larger, tap-friendly icons. Many of the options shown on the main splash screen are links to paid applications like dedicated encryption and decryption tools, but don't let this put you off; all the essentials that you'll find in other free file compression software are present and correct, including archive creation, extraction, repair, and multi-volume ZIP writing.

Interestingly, Ashampoo Zip Free also gives previews of files before you extract an archive. This can be very useful, but it happens automatically so don't be alarmed if a music file begins playing on mouseover. Ashampoo Zip Free doesn't offer an overwhelming number of options, and each of its features is clearly presented and explained. Advanced users may prefer the more fine-grained customization provided by tools like 7-Zip, but for the average user this is an excellent choice. Zipware looks as good as any premium file compression software, and is wonderfully simple to use.

Simply choose 'New' or 'Open', choose your source file or archive, tweak a few optional settings and you're done. Zipware's standout feature is integrated virus-scanning: if an archive is under 32GB, you can check it for threats with VirusTotal. This is unlikely to be of interest to power users, but is a helpful addition for anyone who's unsure about extracting downloaded archives or who knows someone with a tendency to accidentally open such things.

The program is suitable both for everyday work and professional use. Verdict: Ark is an open-source program for compressing and unzipping archives. It works with various archive formats within the KDE environment.

With Ark, you can view, extract, create, and modify files and archives. The program has a simple interface. Ark has decent functions and is easy to use which makes it a perfect choice for people, who need a program with extensive format support. Verdict: Zipware is a free, open-source and feature-rich archiving tool that supports the most popular archive types, including the latest RAR5.

With this program, you can create simple and self-extracting archives with public and encrypted data, split them into multiple linked volumes of different sizes as well as convert them to the most common file formats such as ZIP and 7z. There are five degrees of file compression to choose from. Each level will determine the size of the resulting archives.

Zipware has a very simple interface. Moreover, all the data you work with is protected by the AES and ZipCrypto encryption algorithms. Verdict: I included Haozip on my best free unzip program list because of its powerful features. This software can run on bit and bit Windows operating systems and allows you to compress, unpack and extract almost all popular archive types. Due to its simple and multilingual interface, this archiving tool is a perfect option both for amateurs and professionals.

Verdict: Zipeg is a free program with an intuitive interface designed specifically for extracting files from compressed archives. With Zipeg, you can view the content of the archive and extract necessary files. Thus, it is possible to save hard drive space. Zipeg allows you to control both the process of extracting the content of an archive and the process of data decompression.

The program is great for professional use as it works even with rare file types. Verdict: Xarchiver is an open-source archive manager with a simple GUI. It is developed specifically for Linux and systems created on the BSD license basis. Drag and drop archives into jZip or just right-click a supported format and choose to extract the contents. It's really that easy to unzip an archive with jZip. It supports drag and drop to quickly open a ZIP file and can create password-protected archives.

There's an interesting feature in CAM UnZip where the program can be configured to automatically run a "setup. This can greatly speed things up if you'll be extracting lots of setup files. During install, you're given the option to install CAM UnZip as a portable program that can be launched from a removable drive, or, of course, as a regular one that runs from your computer.

Zipeg doesn't allow the creation of new archives, but it handles unzipping files just fine. When the program first opens, you get to choose which file extensions you want to be associated with the program so that you can be sure that Zipeg is the one that opens all of your archives. One particular feature worth noting is the option to automatically open nested archives, meaning that Zipeg will open archives stored within the archive , automatically.

While this isn't very common, it is helpful when you run into an archive like that. While there isn't support for showing Zipeg in the right-click context menu, which makes unzipping files really easy, Zipeg does support drag and drop into its program window. Unzip-Online is an online archive file decompressor. You can't download all the files at once, which is unfortunate, so you must select each file individually to download. Also, password-protected files can't be extracted with Unzip-Online.

There is a max upload size limit of MB per file, which is probably just fine for most archives. There really isn't anything to this program except the initial screen, which lets you load a RAR file and choose where it should be extracted.

Just select Extract to get the files. Zipper is another free archive decompressor that can open and create ZIP files. The interface isn't nearly as easy to use as the other programs in this list, there isn't a Windows Explorer integration setting, and it takes longer than it should to create your own ZIP file because you must use the built-in file explorer to select data.

Given the other programs in this list, Zipper really shouldn't be your preferred choice for a file unzipper. However, it is a working option and can do the job correctly, even if it's not the easiest to use or the most appealing program.

The program is easy to use because it can be integrated with the right-click context menu in Windows. You can use this menu to quickly open or extract any of the supported unpacking formats. Another free archive extractor and compressor for Windows only is ZipGenius. Several formats are supported with ZipGenius, for both creating and extracting archives. You can password-protect new archives, automatically exclude particular file types when compressing files, and even split an archive into several smaller parts for easier web sharing or storage.

When extracting an archive with ZipGenius, you can set up an antivirus program to automatically scan the results to ensure you're not opening an infected archive.

ZipGenius also supports converting an archive to the ZIP format to easily change the file type to this popular one. There's also an option in the settings to set the priority of ZipGenius to control how many system resources can be allocated to it when compressing and decompressing files.

When creating a new ZIP file, File Zip Wizard doesn't allow adding whole folders to the archive, but you can select more than one file at a time, which is helpful.

It's really easy to choose how much compression you wish to apply to the ZIP file with a slider setting — you can choose anywhere from no compression to maximum compression.

Something you might not like about Free Zip Wizard is that it shows an advertisement every time you close the program.

TUGZip is a free archive decompressor that integrates with Windows, making extracting archives much faster. Like many other programs in this list, TUGZip can make self-extracting archives, but it also lets you add custom commands that run after the extraction completes.

You can add an installed virus scanner to the TUGZip settings to have it scan extracted files automatically, which is great to prevent a malicious file from an archive from infecting your computer. ALZip is a free archive compressor and extractor for Windows and Mac.

It can extract files from 40 archive formats and create new archives in over five different formats.



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