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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: July 13, 2008
- Total Downloads: 171,535
- Downloads last week: 1,709
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 28 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on January 05, 2009
Thanks to its easy-to-use interface, this free file compression tool makes it a snap to unzip files.
The Extractor opens with a panel-style interface that is clear-cut enough for all users to understand. We especially liked the drag-and-drop functionality that let us quickly add ZIP and RAR files. We also like that the user specifies the output file. Once we clicked Go, the program instantly unzipped our file and placed the contents into our designated output folder. Our favorite feature was the Preset option that let us assign a preset task for each output folder after unzipping the file. The preset tasks included keeping folders, subfolders, and covers. If you don't want to assign presets, you can manually apply the same folder options. The Help feature is pretty simplistic and doesn't have search capabilities, but it does walk you through the program.
The fact that this functional file compression program is freeware makes it all the more appealing. We recommend it for all user levels. It cleanly uninstalled from our PC.
Publisher's description
From N00bsoft :The Extractor lets you extract any number of files with just one click. Simply drag and drop zip files, any one file of the same rar set or any folder, with any number of subfolders, to add to the list of items to be processed. It can also delete processed files and folders after successful extraction. Supports ZIP and RAR archive formats. Version 1.4.1 has Windows shell integration.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.4.1 has Windows shell integration.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 28 votes
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1 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: The Extractor 1.4.1
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Version: The Extractor 1.4.1
Pros: Easy to use
Cons: Hard to figure out what you can do with it. Couldn't put files where i needed them. Help section doesn't help. Still not sure what all the extras do.
Summary: As far as i can get some use out of it, i was satisfied. Thats the problem also. Couldn't get much use out of it. Extract Now is as easy and i get it to do more. Some files i just dropped and said i'll get along without because i couldn't get them e... read more >>
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Version: The Extractor 1.4.1
Pros: After I figured out how to use this product it performed excellent. I could not get 'The Extractor' to extract files to my Windows subdirectory, but I managed to work around this glitch.....this could've been something I did wrong.
Cons: The help file is not real intuitive in explaining the different options available in the lower part of the panel, and I stumbled around for quite awhile trying to figure out what the output preferences actually were.
Summary: This product does what it intends to do, extract files. I would add more verbiage to the help section for people like myself who aren't the best at trying to figure things out without adequate instructions. But then, I'm a technical writer so mayb... read more >>
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Version: The Extractor 1.4.1
Pros: its easy to use
Cons: no cons,i love everything about it
Summary: the features an functionality,is something i have never seen,its so reliable,and very easy to use,its simply the best...overall,i say good job on such a perfect program.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: The Extractor 1.4.1
"Nice program, easy interface"
Pros: Easy to use, does just what you want it to.
Cons: Not very fast
Summary: This program does just what you need. It's not as fast or as simplistic as RAR Frog, but RAR Frog has problems extracting larger files (larger than 1gb or more than 50 rar "bits").
RAR Frog took less than one minute to extract a 700mb file an... read more >> - See all 13 user reviews Write review
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