CNET Editors' review
A new interface kicks off TurboZip 8, a reliable compression alternative to WinZip. The easy-to-use archiving tool now supports an even wider range of formats, including 7Z, MS Office 2007 archives, ISO, and BZIP. Two new features make it worth considering: the robust preview feature that makes peering into archived files much simpler, and the Auto Compress Script, which allows you to build new archives based on predetermined criteria.
The preview window can show the contents of not just JPEG and DOC files, but MSI, EXE, and others. It's also blazingly fast, and previewed large files without delay. A new thumbnail preview option and slider enables a more visual representation of your file contents, perfect for pictures but also scalable for documents and HTML. The Auto Compress Script utilizes the same creation Wizard as the Create Zip, and the continuity makes learning how to do it dead simple.
TurboZip no longer requires personal information to be submitted before installing the trial, but it does opt users in to installing TurboZip Express. This can be opted out of. The interface could be better optimized, but the triple-pane mode should feel familiar to most users. It's not hard to navigate, even if it feels a little unpolished compared with the company logo at the bottom. Any level of users will find TurboZip a handy and simple compression program to add to their system's toolbox.
Publisher's Description
From FileStream:
TurboZIP is a total archive management tool with an easy to use interface, making it quickly accessible to every user. The system provides complete internal support for opening and viewing all the most popular archive and e-mail attachment formats, and can create ZIP files as well as JAR and LHA formats. Among the most popular of its list of the TurboZIP talents are viewing capabilities: any file within an archive or e-mail can be picked and previewed, using one of over 200 lightning-quick system viewing filters, including thumbnail display of photo file list. This strength, combined with the organizational features of catalogs for grouping files on your hard disk and removable media, lets you explore new ways of using archives. A special TurboZIP feature is its Auto Compress Script, easy to use files that store the details of creating a particular archive file so you can use it again and again, such as for file backups and archives you need to remake frequently.
Version 8.2 Enhanced Auto Scan feature.
What's new in this version: Enhanced Auto Scan feature.
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4.1 starsout of 33 votes
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"It saves me space."
Version: TurboZIP 8.0
Pros
I compressed my files into a large zip in no time, saved lots of space so I can copy it to a FD.
Cons
There is none.
Summary
The viewers come in really handy, very nice feature.
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"Slim and Fast"
Version: TurboZIP 8.0
Pros
I scan through my zipped PDF files, the view is so fast. It works just as fast with my other zips.
Cons
Best for those that use compression program a lot.
Summary
The more files you have, the more you would appreciate this program.
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"Great compression"
Version: TurboZIP 8.0
Pros
Compression is good and fast.
Cons
No cons I can see.
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"$6 for only 6 mb of download"
Version: TurboZIP 8.0
Pros
I don't know I haven't downloaded
Cons
I know this one and is the price
Summary
TOO PRICEY!!!
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"the best one so far"
Version: TurboZIP 8.0
Pros
free or not free, i have used so many of them. turbozip offers every feature i had wished for
Cons
i have not found any yet
Summary
there are other pro version zippers out there but this is the one i like the most
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"$50! You're joking surely...?"
Version: TurboZIP 8.0
Pros
Does what it says, but there are way to many free alternatives.
Cons
The price. I can buy 'crack' a few blocks up the street for less...
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"50 bucks???"
Version: TurboZIP 8.0
Pros
One of the nicest interface
Cons
Yap, I would not pay 50 good bucks for a zip utility. Too expensive.
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"Too expansive"
Version: TurboZIP 8.0
Pros
A modern interface and the file preview is a useful feature
Cons
Way too expansive. $50 for a zip utility? They are not for real. There is a ton of free software available to zip and unzip files. Given those programs might not be as comfortable but they save you 50 Bucks.
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"My substitution for WinZip"
Version: TurboZIP 7.1
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"Fantastic and Easy For Me To Use!"
Version: TurboZIP 7.1
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