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- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $19.95 to buy
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- Date added: August 15, 2006
- Total Downloads: 1,304,909
- Downloads last week: 601
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 81 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This file-archive utility's strong feature set and impressive flexibility make it a reasonable substitute for the ubiquitous WinZip. PowerArchiver supports several compression formats, including the new 7-Zip format, which offers extremely high compression ratios. You also can encrypt your archives using one of five secure algorithms. The configuration menu lets you customize almost every feature, including a password manager for encrypted archives, a self-extracting wizard, and an autobackup tool. The batch ZIP tool compresses hundreds of files in one shot, and the multiextract tool unpacks hundreds of archives at once. The program works swiftly and reliably and now supports unlimited-size ZIP archives and full-program skinning. Anyone who needs to work with archive files will find PowerArchiver a versatile, affordable alternative.Publisher's description
From ConeXware :PowerArchiver is an archive utility that provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools through an easy-to-use interface that seamlessly integrates with Windows Explorer. PowerArchiver natively supports ZIP, 7-Zip, CAB, LHA (LZH), TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, BH, RAR, ARJ, ARC, ACE, ZOO, GZ, BZIP2, XXE, MIME, UUE, and YENC file formats plus ISO, BIN and NRG disc images, with compression profiles that store frequently used settings.
PowerArchiver creates and works with unlimited-size ZIP archives and features enhanced 7-Zip support to offer the highest compression ratios. Encrypt your archives using five methods, including 256-bit AES, and store your frequently used passwords. Back up your work with PA Backup Express and FTP support, and create powerful self-extracting (SFX) archives.
Version 9.63 includes a new skinning engine and faster 7-Zip compression.
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User reviews of PowerArchiver 2006 9.63
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 81 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: PowerArchiver 2006 9.63
"Good but sad its only for 30 days"
Pros: If tired of traditional Winzip formats just try it, its good to have it running on your system for zipping.
Cons: need few more options like to attach with the emails.
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6 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: PowerArchiver 2006 9.63
Pros: Some years ago I came to dislike the fact that WinZip didn't natively support many file formats. You had to had external command-line softwares to handle ARJ, LHA and others I don't remember. So I began searching the Internet for an alternative and ended up finding PowerArchiver, which at the time was a freeware. I've been a user since then. And since its interface mimics WinZip there's almost no learning curve. Highly recommended.
Cons: Translations have a tendency to lag behind the official English language release. This was worse in the past, but as of today it's still common for both a new version and its translations to not be released at the same time. That's why I usually have the English version installed, even though my license is the (slightly more expensive) international one.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: PowerArchiver 2006 9.63
"Tried the rest. This is the best."
Pros: Handles all the major formats. Very intuitive, non-intrusive GUI. Can be minimized to a tray icon.
Cons: Sometimes, it seems a little slow on large files. Like most of the competition, it does not handle .tgz files as a single operation.
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0 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: PowerArchiver 2006 9.63
"Terrible program, use 7-Zip or StuffIt instead"
Cons: Unlike 7-Zip or StuffIt Expander, this one costs money.
It can't handle .tar files, but it won't tell you that. Instead, it will extract some files but skips others !! This alone makes it untrustworthy/unusable for me.
And, it will completely screw up your file associations. It takes all the ones it knows, w/o asking, and if you happened to be using the built-in Windows Compressed Folders, you'll lose them and have to do some arcane chants to get it back.
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1 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: PowerArchiver 2006 9.63
"Power Archiver Is a great tool...But..."
Pros: Extreamly cheap,winzip's format is crap,and it cost 2 times more than this...
Cons: But there is a Free Archiver that this is based off of,WINRAR Winlabs.com,So It really is copying its format off of WINRAR...
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