Free archive utility: IZArc

It’s been a while since I looked for a good, free file zipper and unzipper for Windows.

If you need one, check out IZArc. It handles all of the file types that I ever need to work with. Here’s the feature list from the web site–check it out!

  • Create an archive
  • Add files to an existing archive
  • Delete files from an existing archive
  • Extract files from an existing archive
  • Test an archive file
  • Convert archive
  • Convert CD Images
  • Repair broken archive
  • Searching for any files in many archives
  • Favorite Folders
  • Obtaining a detailed list of files and information like compression rate, path, or size from an archive file
  • Supports both long and short 8.3 filenames
  • Disk spanning from and to multiple diskettes or other removable media
  • Implementing the possibility to sort the list items by name size, date and etc.
  • Full Drag & Drop support
  • CD/DVD Images support (ISO, BIN, MDF, NRG, IMG, C2D, PDI, CDI)
  • Integrating in Windows Explorer context menu
  • Automatic installation of most software distributed in archive files
  • Add/View comments in an archive
  • By double-clicking onto a file in the file list, it’s opened with the program associated to this file type
  • CheckOut feature
  • Create a self-extracting archive
  • E-mail an archive
  • Checking for new updates
  • Built-in multilanguage support
  • Virus Scan feature
  • UU/XX/MIME Encode/Decode
  • Create Multi-Volume Set
  • Merge Multi-Volume Set
  • UnSFX (Convert self-extracting (SFX) .EXE files to standard archives)
  • Encrypt files using Rijandael – AES (256-bits) encryption
  • Zip encryption (WinZip 9 compatible)
  • BZip compression for ZIP archives
  • Decrypt (.ize) files

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3 thoughts on “Free archive utility: IZArc”

  2. karl.kranich Post author

    Yes, it is a substitute for those. The XP unzip doesn’t handle all of the formats that this one does (I often need to expand .tar files or .tgz files even in Windows). Also, winzip is shareware, although many people treat it as freeware.

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