PowerArchiver is an award winning compression utility which can compress and extract Zip, Zipx, 7zip, Cab, ISO, RAR files. PowerArchiver has released the free version of the popular tool. The free version is only for personal use. PowerArchiver Free fully supports open source 7zip format which provides up to 50% stronger compression than zip, with some unique features available only in PowerArchiver such as optimized compression mode where best format is selected automatically.
Features;
- Our own ZIP/ZIPX engine with full support for ZIPX (LZMA, PPMD, JPEG, WavPack, BZ2). Yes, it is still only utility that fully supports ZIPX archives created by WinZip 12/13/14. It also has Unicode support, full AES encryption support (both versions of AES spec), unlimited file/size support.
- Full 7-Zip support is still there together with unique support for updating solid archives via re-compression.
- Full format support: ZIP, RAR, 7-ZIP, CAB, ACE, LHA (LZH), TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, BH, XXE, UUE, yENC, and MIME (Base 64), ARJ, ARC, ACE, ZOO plus ISO, BIN, IMG and NRG, just as regular PowerArchiver.
- Plugin support (.wcx from Total Commander)
- Wonderful shell extensions are 100% in.
- Windows 7 support – jump lists, taskbar progress and taskbar icon overlays work beautifully.
- 7 different tools: Encrypt, Convert, Batch Zip, Multi Extract, SFX Wizard, Repair ZIP etc – all completely free.
- Explorer View mode which turns PA into File Manager
- PowerArchiver Backup with ability to create backup scripts compress them to zip format, encrypt, filter by: filename, folder, size, date.
The free version is available for download at File Forum.
