AutoExtract 3

CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff

Downloading files is easy, but uncompressing them? Not quite as simple. ZIP files aren't much of a problem, but what about RARs, ARCs, and TARs? AutoExtract can help. It's a tiny utility that runs in the system tray and watches a particular folder.

When a new archive file appears, AutoExtract automatically unpacks it. By default, it uses the good old 7-Zip utility for unarchiving, but you can modify the settings to have different compression utilities handle different file types. So far so good, but unfortunately, AutoExtract had some problems in our tests. It only worked smoothly when monitoring the Desktop folder.

When we tried to switch to another folder, it crashed. We also were irritated that we couldn't change the folder for uncompressed files. Given all that, we'd carefully check out other programs before paying the $10 registration fee for AutoExtract.

Publisher's description

From AlternativeRealities :

AutoExtract 3 is the easiest way to decompress files you have downloaded from the internet. AutoExtract sits in your system tray watching your desktop (or any other folders) for new archives which are then decompressed into a folder of the same name. Version 3 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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