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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: December 27, 2007
- Total Downloads: 94,296
- Downloads last week: 574
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 64 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff on November 07, 2008
Novice-friendly but with features for the expert and free archiving tools rarely cover all those bases, but PeaZip hits a home run.
Operating PeaZip is as easy as dragging files. Drop a ZIP file on the interface and PeaZip goes into decompression mode. Drop a regular file and it opens the archiving screen. Well-labeled buttons and simple functions make both processes quick and painless. Adding files and folders is also quickly accomplished using function buttons and traditional file browse tools.
Novice users will be able to use default settings to create well-made archives. Experienced users will like the easily set options. Each well-designed interface includes option tabs that contain simple pull-downs, radio buttons, and text boxes to set compression levels, methods, dictionaries, and even encryption. Most users will find this app one of the most simple to set exactly to their preferences.
Anyone looking for a small and useful archiving tool should give PeaZip a test. Most won't continue their search.
Publisher's description
From Giorgio Tani Software :PeaZip archiver is a portable, open source archiving and compression utility, with encryption and file split features. Full support: 7Z, 7Z-sfx, BZip2/TBZ2, GZip/TGZ, LPAQ, PAQ, PEA, QUAD, split, TAR, UPX, ZIP. Open, browse, extract, test: ACE, ARJ, CAB, CHM, COMPOUND (MSI, DOC, XSL, PPT), CPIO, ISO, Java (JAR, EAR, WAR), Linux (DEB, PET/PUP, RPM, SLP), LHA/LZH, NSIS, OOo, PAK/PK3/PK4, RAR, WIM, XPI, Z/TZ. PeaZip features a powerful archive browser with search and history for intuitive archive navigation, and allows to apply fine-grained multiple exclusion and inclusion filter rules. PeaZip allows creating, editing and restoring archive's layout for speeding up archiving or backup operation's definition. The program can handle multiple archives at once; export job definition as command line. PeaZip's most used functions are available in SendTo and context menu, the user interface is skinnable for colors, transparency and icons.
Version 1.1 adds support for drag and drop (from the system to the application) and updates 7z frontend.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.1 adds support for drag and drop (from the system to the application) and updates 7z to latest 4.57 version.
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User reviews of PeaZip 1.1
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 64 votes
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: PeaZip 1.1
"It's a great program definitely worth downloading, drawbacks are minor"
Pros: It does what it says it will
It zips/unzips a wide variety of compression types
It's fast
And now it's much simpler to use - they did a good job cleaning up some GUI functions that made how do do things (like unzip to function) hard to set up
Cons: Don't like is NOT the right phrase.
For me it's more a matter of improving the GUI just a little bit more in one area.
They did such a good job of making the program work smoothly and intelligently that the 4 initial icons on the first tap are now redundant. They also lack a "pop up" explanation. So newbie users may get very confused trying to use those buttons if they assume wrong.
I'd just delete them all together, and refer people to the tabs below. If you don't do that, then put a "label" on the icons. I know this may be difficult due to the multiple language format, but it would be very helpful.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: PeaZip 1.1
Pros: It is free, it does everything you could want from a zip utilitiy. It unzips, joins files together etc. It is also easy to use.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: PeaZip 1.1
Pros: Allthough theres nothing wrong with the WINZIP/WINRAR software , they feel a bit chunky , and there not the easiest to use.
PeaZip has a great feel , simple interface , easy to use and looks great.
Cons: No problems.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: PeaZip 1.1
Pros: a little bit slow,but itīs good.
Cons: he dont have the compression codificacion for ace and rar files.and sometimes he crashes when the work is to much.
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: PeaZip 1.1
"Very Good Program. Some improvements must be done."
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