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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: January 22, 2008
- Total Downloads: 100,126
- Downloads last week: 1,691
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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 now supports different options for each item.
What's new in this version:
Version 1.4 now supports different options for each item.
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User reviews of The Extractor 1.4
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 28 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: The Extractor 1.4
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: The Extractor 1.4
Pros: It works great! The navigation looks complicated, but it's not.
I travel around a lot and use many different computers with different OS; like today, I'm using a PC with Windows ME on it. My absolute favorite extracting program, Extract Now (also free), doesn't work on anything below Windows 2000. So this is a great alternative!
Cons: The instructions are a bit vague. If you want the zip or rar files to be deleted after the program has extracted the files, click on "Clean Up" on the General Options panel, located on the main program window.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: The Extractor 1.4
Pros: It's easy and it works. I wanted a simple free programme successfully to extract and join RAR files without having to pay for Winace or others or get the hateful ads on the free version of Winace. The Extractor does exactly what I wanted it to.
Cons: It's not hugely intuitive, but there's nothing wrong with it that a little concentration won't fix.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: The Extractor 1.4
"If you download RAR files, this is for you."
Pros: In a nutshell, this program is a little tricky to get used to. Once you do, you will be extravting and compressing RAR files easily
Cons: Unfortunately it has the ugly look of older programs and the user interface is quite basic, room for improvement for this one.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: The Extractor 1.4
Pros: It does everything I need it to, and does it reliably.
Price.
Cons: None
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