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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: November 12, 2006
- Total Downloads: 1,793,040
- Downloads last week: 30,117
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 137 votes
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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 IZSoftware :IZArc is the ultimate archive utility supports 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. IZArc has also build-in multilanguage support.
Version 3.6 added support for BZip compression for ZIP archives (WinZip 9 compatible) and ZIP AES (128, 192 and 256 bit) encryption (WinZip 9 compatible).
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User reviews of IZArc 3.6
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 137 votes
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: IZArc 3.6
Pros: Like a swiss army knife, this Winzip / WinRAR replacement is very handy for opening a very large number of file formats and is available in a wide range of languages.
It features a beautiful yet simple to use GUI and loads / works quickly.
Perfect in everyway...
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7 out of 12 people found this review helpful
Version: IZArc 3.6
"Never deal with Winzip or Winrar again."
Pros: Totally free, supports many archive types including the popular ZIP and RAR, able to open, extract, and convert CD image files, works fast and is easy to use.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: IZArc 3.6
Pros: Fast compression/decompression and various options of doing so. Skinnable, and supports any format you'll ever need to read. Very lightweight.
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: IZArc 3.6
"Free, fast, many formats.. A+++"
Pros: I've used this utility for years. It supports many formats including zip, rar, tar, bz2 and many others. It has never failed me. Even includes AES256 encryption capabilities.
Cons: It does not support ".sit" format.
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3 out of 15 people found this review helpful
Version: IZArc 3.6
Cons: I wanted to give it NO STARS!
Didnt extract 2 files, saying header broken.Tried my old trusted "Extract-Now" and that worked no problem at all.Uninstalled pronto!
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