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Price: Free
Date Added: Jan 2007
Operating Systems: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP
Requirements: CPU Pentium-class 100 MHz, 32 Mb RAM, 8 Mb free hard disk space
File Size: 5043KB
Downloads Count: 6140
Author: Matteo Riso (M.Dev Software)
Like PowerArchiver 2006, ZipGenius 6 Standard employs the .7z file format (originally developed for an open-source program called 7-Zip) to deliver its maximum compression rates. However, ZipGenius was the slower of the two. In the same tests, ZipGenius 6 Standard's use of .7z did slightly out-compress StuffIt Standard 9.5's .sitx and WinRAR 3.61's .rar formats, but it also took much longer to do so.
ZipGenius 6 Standard can create archives in a few other formats as well (including .zip and .tar), and will extract a variety of others like .rar or .ace, plus .iso and .nrg disc images. Support for .arj, .arc, or .lzh archive extraction requires external programs. ZipGenius 6 Standard offers support for CryptoZIP 2.0, AES-128, BlowFish-128, and TwoFish encryption.
ZipGenius 6 Standard has a couple of free add-ons that you can optionally download. The first adds FTP capabilities to the app, and another lets you import and archive images from sources like TWAIN scanners, memory cards, or USB thumb drives. Collections of large photo files are a perfect candidate for archiving, and ZipGenius offers help by displaying thumbnail previews of images contained within a compressed file--though not quite as smoothly as WinZip 11 does.
Like the other apps in our roundup, ZipGenius 6 Standard can create multiple-volume archives (split into multiple files of user-definable size). However, I could only get this to work with .7z (as apposed to .zip) files in my tests.
--Danny Allen
You can find the full review and performance details for this program, and its competitors, at our Top 5 Compression Utilities chart.
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672999 | Trial | May 2008 |
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Compress and decompress files quickly and free-of-charge.
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451992 | Free | Sep 2006 |
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WinRAR is a powerful archive-creation utility that remains the only way to create .rar files.
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114909 | Trial | Oct 2007 |
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Recover passwords for Zip files.
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87710 | Shareware | Mar 2004 |
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Get features found in $30 archive programs for free.
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68814 | Free | Sep 2006 |
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A solid archive tool with an uncluttered interface and excellent Windows Explorer integration.
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62253 | Trial | Sep 2006 |
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Our Best Buy, this feature-packed compression utility provides solid compression and encryption options.
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51515 | Shareware | Feb 2006 |
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Turn executable install programs into .cab files and extract them individually.
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32901 | Free | Jan 1998 |
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Create ZIP compressed archives for free with this handy utility.
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31425 | Free | Jul 2007 |
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Review your archives without re-expanding them.
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29439 | Trial | Jun 2002 |
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