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"Easy to use and great performance."
Version: WinZip 11.2
Pros
Easy to use and great performance.
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"I like more if have winzip in portuguese"
Version: WinZip 11.2
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"it willbe good for me"
Version: WinZip 11.2
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"This is a much improved application."
Version: WinZip 11.2
Pros
This is a much improved application.
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"IT's Very Much Useful"
Version: WinZip 11.2
Pros
It can create self extracters without winzip self extracter easily,and the visualisation also great if it has a skin feature it eould be more attractive to any user home or enterprise the owners must look at this point
Cons
I have read the what's new features in winzip's latest version the given that this is can be useful for music but i can't find any suh thing yet
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"A MUST Download"
Version: WinZip 11.2
Pros
Easy to use interface and simplicity. WinZip is the BEST file decompression program on the the market. It's powerful and so simple my wife could use it (and she's not very computer literate with this stuff).I've tried others but ALWAYS come back to the BEST. Winzip is for the beginner and the pro. A Must have.
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"Comparison between WinZIP 11.1 and PKZIP for WIndows 9"
Version: WinZip 11.2
Pros
Download.com does not offer PKZIP for WIndows. My goal was to zip and split a folder containing a 5.4 GB DVD image into decent-size chunks, from the Windows Explorer context menu. I bought and used both programs.
Compared to PKZIP for WIndows 9 (from now on just PKZIP), WinZIP is a much better-behaved program.
PKZIP barely provides a user interface from the context menu of Windows Explorer, ties up Explorer so you cannot use it, and hard disk utilization is to the max. In fact, what is actually running is not PKZIP but System (containing Windows XP built-in compression utility), as seeing in Task Manager. So, is PKZIP for Windows just a window-dresser for the built-in Windows XP compression support?
I do like the fact that PKZIP allows you to preset a default compression type (maximum, of course), and a split size, even though I cannot customize size, nor does it include ZipDrive 250 or ZipDrive 750 split size.
With WinZIP, you can choose an arbitrary size for your split file, but it has major caveats. See under Cons for details.
Finally, the Wall of Weird on PKZIP is that every single split file created has the date 7/24/2007 10:23 AM, whereas the head ZIP file has the real modified and created dates.
WinZIP, by contrast, comes as its own application, leaving Windows Explorer alone, it does not hog processor time or go above 50%, even with the maximum compression setting (at least, with HyperThreading on), and only from time to time blurts out chunks to disk.
Finally, the Wall of Weird on WinZIP is that it starts with the initial zip file, but at split time you end up with a split file and an empty .ZIP file, both of which have the SAME Creation Date (and time). This process repeats over and over as it creates splits. The end result is that the zip file usually has an odd size, ends up as the tail of the whole chain, and each split file has the same creation date. The modified date is just as expected.
Cons
Does not allow you to preset compression type nor split file size in their Configuration window.
With WinZIP, you can choose an arbitrary size for your split file, but you cannot default a split size before the first time you zip up a file. In fact, in the Add file menu, changes in any other control erases user settings, and resets splits to its default: Don't Split. VERY BAD
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"easy to use"
Version: WinZip 11.2
Pros
right click and everything is straightforward
Cons
no problems
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"um..."
Version: WinZip 11.2
Pros
Easy to use.
Cons
it's not free T^T
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"The best zip program 10+ years and going"
Version: WinZip 11.2
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