eFront's Power Archiver

Zip files. Aren't they great? Those essential adjuncts to the internet, without which downloading anything would be an unbearably long-winded process (well, even more so than it is already). It's probably not exaggerating things to say that a zip file manager is one of the most useful programs you will ever use. Except that (why does this seem so inevitable?) Microsoft hasn't thought fit to provide a decent one with Windows, the built-in program bundled with XP being utterly feeble, though at least it's there, which is more than you can say for Win98 and earlier. This is where PowerArchiver comes in. Something to get out of the way before we ...  Read the complete review

I'm sure if you regularly download programs from the Internet you will be familiar with Zip compression technology. This is a method of compressing a file so that it becomes smaller and thus quicker to download. Once complete you simply double click the file and providing you have an unzip utility such as WinZip then it will extract the file for you, at it's normal usable size. Sometimes however you may download a file that WinZip seems unable to open, if that's the case then have you ever considered using a different Unzip utility? Of course it is true to say that maybe you don't experience much hassle when unzipping files, if this is ...  Read the complete review

After having used WinZip for many years, I found Power Achiever, that same day WinZip was removed from my computer, forever. Power Achiever does almost everything that WinZip did, there are no wizards, but what it does do it does very well. Creating an achieve is a breeze, and you can convert between types easily. There are far more options than WinZip, almost every part of operation can be customised. The toolbar can be ‘skinned’ using downloadable skins from the Power Achiever website. Like most modern zip utilities Power Achiever integrates with the windows shell, so you can right click an file and extract/compress them etc. What options are ...  Read the complete review

PowerArchiver is a great product - it does everything that WinZip (or other archivers) can do, but it's freeware. The integration with the Windows Shell is great - right click on a folder, and you'll get the option to zip to a file of the same name, zip with options (different name, passwords, etc). Right click on a zip file, and you'll get the options to unzip here, unzip to folder of same name, or unzip with options. Creating self extracting archives is easy too - right click on a zip file and you'll get an option to create a self extracting archives. It can tell when you've right clicked on a self extracting .exe file, and gives you the ...  Read the complete review