IZArc (old name IZip) 3.1

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• Price: Free
• Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
• Date added: July 19, 2002
• Total Downloads: 1,793,040
• Downloads last week: 30,117
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CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff

IZArc modestly bills itself as the ultimate archiving utility--we're not so sure about that "ultimate" bit. Nevertheless, IZArc is definitely one of the best archiving utilities out there. Compatible with a huge number of archive formats, all the major are represented, as well as 7z (from 7-Zip), ISO, BH (Black Hole), and TAR, among others. It can create archives for many of the formats it can read, too, including 7z and TAR. It doesn't, however, create GZ archives.

IZArc supports archive encryption as well. AES 128-, 192-, and 256-bit encoding and PKZip 2.0 both are available. The app offers a reasonable range of context-menu options in Explorer, although not as many as some of its competitors. The user interface is more similar to WinZip's than some other alternative archivers, with big, obnoxiously colored icons making it clear to everybody and their dog just which buttons do what--not that that's a bad thing. Overall, IZArc is an excellent example of a third-party publisher supporting multiple formats and options under one roof--but it's not the only option out there.

Publisher's description

From the developer: "IZArc is an archiving tool suports many formats like: ACE, ARC, ARJ, BH, BZ2, CAB, ENC, GZ, HA, JAR, LHA, LZH, MBF, MIM, PAK, PK3, RAR, TAR, TBZ, TGZ, UUE, XXE, Z, ZIP, ZOO. It allows you to drag and drop files from and to Windows Explorer, create multiple archives spanning disks, repair broken zip archives, search in many archives, view and write comments and there is an integrated password detector, allows you to find the passwords of one password protected zip file."

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