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Title  RAR File Open Knife
RAR File Open Knife is a fast and easy-to-use tool that opens RAR files. It includes short instructions in over 50 languages.
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Title  Zipeg Size  1.36 MB Win  2000/XP/Vista
Zipeg is archive decompression utility for Windows. Zipeg is freeware alternative for WinZip, StuffIt or WinRar and alike compression utilities.
Zipeg opens ZIP, RAR, ARJ, LHA, 7z and many other types of archives. Zipeg helps to preview files and Jpeg photographs (.jpg, .png) before extracting them.
Decompress, unzip, expand, extract or drag and drop exactly what you want to where you want.
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Title  ExtractNow Size  939 kB Win  2000/XP/2003/Vista
ExtractNow is a cool utility that allows you to extract files quickly and easily.
Supported File Types: ZIP, RAR, ISO, BIN, IMG, IMA, IMZ, JAR, GZ, SIT.
ExtractNow was completely rewritten to develop version 4.0. Version 3.60 will no longer be developed or supported.
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Title  IZarc Size  3098 kB Win  all
IZArc includes tight integration with My Computer and Windows Explorer. Drag and drop to or from Explorer, or zip and unzip without leaving Explorer. IZArc is extremely easy to use! To open an archive simply double click (or, you're working in Web style, click once) on an archive listed in My Computer or the Windows Explorer, drag and drop an archive onto IZArc, or use the standard Open dialog box. The main IZArc window features a list with the names, and sizes of all files in the open archive. This list can be scrolled and sorted on any field. A configurable tool bar provides fast access to commonly used actions. Extensive context sensitive help is always available.
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Title  Quick Zip Size  4211 kB Win  all
QuickZip is a powerful and fast compress utility. QuickZip features no ads, no spyware and has been a completely free archiver since 1999. It is not intended to act as a clone of another archiver. Instead, we aim to provide a cleaner and more powerful interface. Quick Zip can create 10 different formats (zip, cab, lha, tar, tgz, bz2, bza, 7z, sqx, rs) and read 28 different formats (zip, cab, lha, tar, tgz, bz2, bza, 7z, sqx, rs, rar, ace, arj, gca, bel, zoo, pak, cpt, arg, asd, dzip, shar, zac, MacBin, Compress, Freeze, Splint, Jam) as well as various kinds of encoding formats without using any external programs. Additional features include creating SFX (self-extracting module), integrated multimedia viewer, enhanced file list generation with grouping support. A backup script generator Is included to provide one step backup support for your files. QuickZip provides easy to use filtering techniques (e.g. filename wildcards, size) to search for files inside of an archive. You can also use archive finder to search for matching archives on your hard drive.
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Title  PowerArchiver Size  2099 kB Win  9x/NT/ME/2000/XP
PowerArchiver 6.11 (last freeware version).
Full built-in support for ZIP, CAB, LHA(LZH), TAR(+TAR.GZ, +TAR.BZ2) and BH (BlakHole) archives and XXE and UUE Internet encoded files. Built-in support for reading and extracting: RAR, ARJ, ARC, ACE, ZOO, GZIP and BZIP2 archives. Multiple disk spanning, passwords, comments, renaming files in archive, installing archive, checking archive for viruses, integrated viewer with support for TXT, RTF, BMP, JPG(JPEG), ICO, WMF and EMF files. Create ZIP, RAR, ACE, ARJ, LHA and BH SFX archives. Complete integration with Windows Explorer: d&d, powerful Explorer Shell Extensions. and more...
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Title  ICEOWS Size  740 kB Win  all
ICEOWS is written to compress or extract archive files easier. With ICEOWS you can extract, test, read properties and comments or view files stored in ICE, ARJ, ZIP, GunZip, TAR, Microsoft CAB, RAR, ACE, MIME, Mac HQX, UUEncode, XXEncode, Base64, JAR, EAR, WAR, LHA, IMP, BZ2 files without an external program. If the archive is an ICE, ARJ or ZIP, you also can add, update and delete files stored within the archive. It integrates all of these functions in the same explorer interface that Windows 9x, Me, NT or XP has. ICEOWS adds a new ICE format which is excellent for reducing the size of text files.
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Title  TUGZip Size  4.0 MB Win  all
TUGZip is an advanced archiving utility with an easy-to-use interface. It supports a wide rage of file formats. You can create 7-ZIP, BZ2, CAB, LHA (LZH), SQX, TAR, TGZ, YZ1 and ZIP archives. It has built-in support for reading/extracting ZIP, 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, CPIO, DEB, GCA, GZ, IMP, LHA (LZH), LIB, RAR, RPM, SQX, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TAZ, YZ1 and ZOO archives. Support for the new Zip64 algorithm enables you to create archives at a total size of 4GB. Included in the package is also a SFX-tool and a scripting tool which simplifies secure and automated backups. You can encrypt/decrypt files using six different algorithms, Blowfish (128-bit), DES (56-bit), Triple DES (168-bit) and Rijndael (128-bit, 192-bit and 256-bit). You can even convert them to SFX-archives.
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Title  BigSpeed Zipper Size  777 kB Win  95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
BigSpeed Zipper is a .zip format compression utility. Being simple and intuitive to use with its explorer-style interface, it boasts a large number of features the other utilities on the market do not have. The most notable one is the ability to extract files from archives on remote servers without having to download the archive.The possibilities given by this and other features change the whole concept of an archive utility. BigSpeed Zipper also allows you to search in all zip files on the disk for specified files or text inside them, view the contents of zip files while downloading them, automate frequently used compression operations, backup files in zip format to disk or FTP server, upload zip files to FTP servers, send zip files as email attachments, synchronize the contents of zip files and folders, split/join files to/from smaller chunks, repair damaged zip files, create self-extracting packages, create multiple volume zip archives (including on non removable drives). And even this isn't all this program can do. If you require maximum functionality from a .zip utility, make this one your first choice. It's free, by the way!
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Title  7-Zip Size  918 kB Win  all
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio. The program supports 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB formats. Compression ratio in the new 7z format is 30-50% better than ratio in ZIP format. It also compresses to ZIP 2-10% better than PKZip and WinZip.
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Title  Ultimate Zip Size  3061 kB Win  all
Ultimate Zip 2.7.0 (last freeware version) creates associations for files with the following extensions: ACE, ARC, ARJ, BH, BZ2, CAB, ENC, GZ, HA, JAR, LHA, LZH, PAK, PK3, PK_, RAR, TAR, TBZ, TBZ2,TGZ, UU, UUE, XXE, Z, ZIP, ZOO. To open these archive types by Double clicking UltimateZip must be properly associated to them. Ultimate Zip uses these associations when you Double Click on an archive file listed in an Explorer window.
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Title  ZipSnake Size  2757 kB Win  all
Have a lot of ZIP files on your hard drive? Need a file that you know is in one of those ZIP files, but you're not quite sure which one? That's where ZIP Snake comes in... ZIP Snake will allow you to search anywhere on your hard drive within ZIP files, in a given folder, subfolders, or even the entire drive. ZIP Snake will recursively search through all found ZIP files and return files within those ZIP files that match your search criteria. You will be able to search for a specific file name or match wildcard criteria like '*.txt' for example. Once found, a simple right click on the found file allows you to extract the chosen file to the destination of choice.
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