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- Price: Free to try (Time limited); $49.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: January 28, 2003
- Total Downloads: 359,441
- Downloads last week: 303
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 34 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on January 23, 2009
A reliable compression tool for folks wanting an alternative to WinZip, TurboZip is user friendly and easy to master. (Warning: You must provide some minimal personal information to register the tool before it will install.) The TurboZip interface has a familiar three-paned appearance similar to that of e-mail programs like Microsoft Outlook.
One pane lists the archives you've created; the second pane reveals a list of the files in the archive you select; and the third pane displays the contents of the file you choose, much like a preview pane. A wizard leads you through creating an archive, which you can save in a variety of formats including ZIP, RAR, and self-extracting EXE files, so even novices will have no difficulties. The utility performed well in our tests. Although TurboZip offered different compression levels, there was little file size difference in the resulting archives, no matter which level we used.
However, even the default compression setting for TurboZip (midway between highest and lowest) created an archive smaller than WinZip's maximum level of compression, and smaller is better in zip utilities. Any level of user will find TurboZip a handy and simple compression program to add to their system's toolbox.
Publisher's description
From FileStream :TurboZIP is a Secure Total Archive management tool and Auto Backup application that offers you an amazing depth of features, with a familiar user interface that makes it accessible to every level of users. The system provides complete internal support for opening, cataloging, organizing, and viewing the most popular archive and e-mail attachment formats, and to create the most common archive types. Its ZIP Set feature lets you securely organize your archives. It also offers command-line support for unattended backup, compression, and extraction without interface.
It opens all major archive and e-mail attachment formats, including ZIP; Java Archive (JAR); CAB, ARJ, and LHA (LZH) archives; self-extracting files (EXE); Unix Z archives (GZ, TAZ, TGZ, Z); Unix TAR archives; UU-encoded e-mail (UUE, UU); MIME e-mail (MME, MIM, B64); Mac Bin Hex (BHX, HQX); Outlook (MSG); and Outlook Express (EML). It also creates ZIP, Java Archive (JAR), ARJ, and LHA (LZH) archives, UU-encoded e-mail (UUE) files, and self-extracting (EXE) files. You can search, view, print, and launch files within ZIP without unzipping or decoding. Over 100 built-in internal file viewers are included.
In addition, the TurboZIP Auto Backup module compresses files on your hard drive or removable media in the ZIP format to safeguard your work and conserve disk space. TurboZIP allows for simultaneous archiving operations such as multiple zipping, unzipping, and auto backup. Other features include Auto Detect to identify the contents of the archive or e-mail; Auto Rename files for use in extraction with new version numbers; and a new Extract All menu to enhance extraction speed.
Version 5.1 features encryption; multivolume spanning to hard disk, removable disk, or network; ANSI name support for international characters; file filters; wildcards; UNC (Universal Naming Convention) support and UNC ZIP Set support; and more. The TurboZIP Auto Backup now also supports multi-volume to hard disk.
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