The integrated quick backup feature in PicoZip makes routine backups fast and easy. Just create a backup set with the necessary backup options and files to backup, then you can run it everytime you want to do the same backup. Power users will appreciate the fact that PicoZip comes with powerful filtering, search and batch processing capabilities to make managing archives a breeze. PicoZip is highly customizable, so you can make it work the way you want it. PicoZip is compatible with PKZip, WinZip and many other compression utilities.

Features Highlights:

• Powerful yet easy-to-use, including optional Wizard interface for novice users.
• Supports more file compression formats that other popular Zip utilities.
• Fast and easy automated backup makes routines backups as simple as two mouse clicks.
• Integrated email support, including one-click "Compress and Email" from Windows Explorer.
• Integrated archive files explorer and favorites makes managing lots of archive files a breeze.
• Seamless Windows integration allows you to drag-and-drop to or from Windows Explorer and Zip/UnZip without leaving Windows Explorer.
• Powerful batch features allow you to perform archive operations on many files at once.
• Other features: File filtering, repair damaged Zip archives, password protect archives, convert archive format, install from archive and much more.

• Coolzip supports many compression and encoding formats like zip, cab, rar, lha, ace, jar, uue, xxe and many more.
• Password support.
• Office2000 interface.
• Full drag and drop support.
• Can read and write self-extracting zip files (compressed .exe files).
• Integrates with Windows 95/98/NT/2000 shell (context menu).
• Has an advanced drag and drop interface.
• Can use different icons for each associated file type. You can even use your own icons.
• Supports disk spanning.
• Runs without the need for external programs.

DJ FindInZip is closely integrated to Windows Shell that you can activate DJ FindInZip from both Find menu of Windows Start menu, from Find menu of Windows Explorer Tools menu or from context menu if you right click any directory from Windows Explorer.
 
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Features integration with Windows Explorer context menu, drag and drop and much more.
 
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You can easily convert an archive into another format send one over the internet via the built-in emailer.
 
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Browse, copy files from, and add files to archives just like any regular folder. Drag and drop files to and from the archive folders. Perform all archive tasks without ever leaving Explorer, including converting archive types from one to another.

Right-Click Explorer Extensions:

Create any archive type from the 12 available with a single right click. Create (and email) multiple archives of different types. Extract multiple archives with a single right click. Drag and drop files onto archives to add them to the archive.

Codex Plug-In Technology:

The plug-in based product ships with 5 plug-ins that have full support for 12 (7Z, ACE, BH, BZIP2, CAB, GZIP, JAR, LHA, RAR, TAR, ZIP, ZLIB) and extract support for 25 archive types. Adding support for new archive types is as easy as installing their plug-ins.

Stand Alone Archive Applications:

The product also contains 4 stand-alone archive applications - command line, wizards, WinZip style, and a professional archive studio, so you can work in the environment you are most comfortable with for your needs.

Accessories:

Among the many tools included are: A tool to automatically sample the compression performance of the many different supported archive types, MIME/UUEncoding for easy file emailing, converting self extracting archives to regular archives, repairing damaged archives, recovering lost passwords on ZIP archives, and many more.

Codex 2.0 API/SDK:

The product ships with an SDK/API which developers can use to create their own plug-ins and applications to work within the open specifications of the Codex Plug-In Technology. Extensive on-line help makes the development of plug-ins as easy as possible. The Rapid Application Development API makes creating / updating / extracting files from archives possible with a single function call.

A 1/10 Chance to Win a Free License:

Each tenth user to install the product wins a Free license key.
 
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For now, three languages are available: English, Hungarian and Croatian. Soon several others will be added. In other words, this is GUI front-end for several compressors, but, it is much more. Over 20 actions added and available with only ine right mouse click.
 
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Supported archive formats: Zip, Arj, Tar, Cab, Rar, Cab, Lha and Zoo.
 
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Features included:

• Build -in support to 19 types (or 33 extension) of archives and encoding formats
• Providing full integration to the shell, including archive icon, which associate different archive with different icon, context menu, Tool tips, drag and drop, cut and paste.
• Folder list, which show the directory structure of files, new function: version control, when toggle on, add new file will add the current date time in path, which enable user to store and pick different version of files in same archive.
• Hot edit functions, and beside hot edit, user will be asked to update if they run a file and make modification on it.
• Basic features include extract, add, sfx, run, install, checkout, virus scanning, spanning, multi-extract, batch zip, file list export to txt, htm and pdf files, repairing zips, internal mail client.
• Other features include script support, archiver finder/converter, and internal viewer.
• Low memory consumption: Quick zip won't load the component until require to use, startup memory usage less than 4 MB.

• work correctly with long Russian filenames
• Explorer-lke interface
• Quick View with syntax highlight for Pascal, C and SQL constructions
• Ability to create new folders in archives
• Two language interface (Russian and English) with ability to add any other language
• Many more features...

Also can decompress created files.

Works slowly but properly and correctly.
 
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• 'Active Zip' to update transparently your Zip file each time you update yours data
• 'Virtual Folder' to organize yours downloads and your archives
• Url extractor to remember the Internet site from where you have downloaded the file (only with Microsoft IE4 or higher)
• Powerful context menu configuration, for quick zipping or unzipping, and much more ...
• Task Scheduler compatibility for Zip files automatic update
• Many more...

Features include extract, add, delete, sfx, unsfx, convert, batch add, batch extract, merge, run, install, checkout, view, test, virus scan, repair, remove known password, truncate, span, unspan, mail, print file list, file list export to txt, csv and htm files and more.

You can drag and drop files from ZipZag to other applications to view them, or you can drag and drop files to Windows Explorer to extract them in a specific folder.

You can use right click context menu in order to compress files to archives or to extract files from archives. Batch Add feature allows to compress many files at once, each in his own archive. Batch Extract feature allows to extract many files at once. Merge Archives creates a single archive from a couple of smaller archives.

ZipZag can span or unspan a zip file using the standard procedure, or even slice or restore any type of files.

ZipZag has a build-in viewer that works with most of popular formats, like HTML, XML, DOC, XLS, BMP, ICO, JPG, TIFF, TGA, PNG, PCD, PSD, PSP, PCX and more. C++, Delphi, CSS, Java, Java Script, Visual Basic, Visual Basic Script, Perl and PHP source code is viewed using highlighted syntax.

ZipZag perform all file operations Windows Explorer can do, plus you can wipe a file making the file impossible to recover. Many dialog boxes, as Extract or Add, are resizeable.
 
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• Three operational modes making it suitable for distribution of data files or software.
• End-user dialogs that can be easily translated into other languages.
• A built-in configuration editor.
• Extensive online help.
• Footprint less than 45 KB.

Double clicking on any file listed in the main window of ZippHo, you have the same effect that you may obtain in File Manager or Windows Explorer: the files are extracted from the archive and, if it is a executable, it will be run, otherwise it will be opened from the application associated to it (as an example, NotePad for TXT files), being based on the associations recorded in Windows. If the file is not associated to any program, you can try to see it with the integrated viewer of ZippHo.
 
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