Posts belonging to Category Compression tools

Xleaner Portable
Version 4.27.1354
Updated January 4, 2013
Added Jan. 4, 2012
Homepage/developer
Compatibility : Windows XP/Vista/7/8
File size : 1.46 Mb
Download
Download (@via MajorGeeks)

Portable cleaning tool/app

From the developer, “Xleaner is a free privacy and clean-up utility that allows you to get rid of junk files with ease. With Xleaner you can eliminate all these tracks that result from browsing the web on your computer, such as internet history, cookies, cache, autocomplete memory etc. of your browser, and window’s temp folders, run history, search history, open/save history, recent documents and more

Xleaner Portable

7-Zip
Version 9.20
Updated November 20, 2010
Added Apr. 15, 2009
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 1.7 Mb
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
Download (32-bit version via SkyDrive)
Download (64-bit version via SkyDrive)
If there is trouble with the above listed d/l links, try the author’s site here, which will allow d/l’ing from SourceForge mirror locations.

High compression ratio file archiver.
7-Zip is a file archiver with very high compression ratio. Includes a password option.
From the developer, “The main features of 7-Zip :

• High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
  Supported formats:
  Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
  Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z.
  For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
  Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
  Self-extracting capability for 7z format
  Integration with Windows Shell
  Powerful File Manager
  Powerful command line version
  Plugin for FAR Manager
  Localizations for 74 languages”

Read the author’s FAQs page for 7-Zip here.

7-Zip

ZipInstaller
Version 1.21
Updated June 1, 2010
Added Sep 01, 2005
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 67 Kb
Compatibility : Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
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The ZipInstaller utility installs and uninstalls applications and utilities that do not provide an internal installation program.

The ZipInstaller utility installs and uninstalls applications and utilities that do not provide an internal installation program. It automatically extracts all files from the Zip file, copies them to the destination folder you select, creates shortcuts in the start menu and in your desktop, and adds an uninstall module to allow you to automatically remove the software in the future.

ZipInstaller

IZArc
Version 4.1
Added Mar. 22, 2010
Developer/Homepage
File Size : 4.07 Mb
Compatibility : Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
Download** (**will take you to a selection of mirror download locations at the developer’s website)

From the author’s description, “IZArc is the best freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO. With a modern easy-to-use interface, IZArc provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools. It allows you to drag and drop files from and to Windows Explorer, create and extract archives directly in Windows Explorer, create multiple archives spanning disks, creating self-extracting archives, repair damaged zip archives, converting from one archive type to another, view and write comments and many more. IZArc has also build-in multilanguage support.

* With IZArc you can open CD image files like ISO, BIN, CDI and NRG.
* It is also possible to convert such files from one type to another (BIN to ISO, NRG to ISO).
* If you need to send large files to your colleagues, friends or customers who may not have archiving tool you can easily create self-extracting archive that can be extracted by simple double click.
* IZArc can be configured to run your preferred Anti-Virus scanner when you open any archives.
* IZArc supports 256-bit AES encryption to secure your data.
* IZArc is integrated in Windows so you can perform all archiving operations by using right-click menus in Windows Explorer.
* If you have broken archives IZArc can help you to repair them with ease.
* IZArc is 100% virus free and it doesn’t contain any spyware or adware.

IZArc