| BigSpeed Zipper: Compact ZIP tool with unusual features such as browsing ZIP files before downloading and full-text search of ZIP file contents. |
| Bzip2 and Libbzip2: Patent free, high-quality data compressor for Windows or Unix. |
| Cathonian Ventures Ltd - Zipfusion: Flexible self-extractor, use with any zip tools that create type 0 (stored) and type 8 (deflate) format zip files. Feature a built-in configuration editor. |
| dczip: Freeware data compression utility for zip, tar, gzip and bzip2 files. Requires Java 1.3 or better. |
| Dzip: Compact Windows compression program that creates small .DZ archive files. Integrates with Windows Explorer. |
| EnZip: Windows Explorer-integrated Zip program which can also build self-extracting archives with customized interfaces. |
| FileCompress Uharc Gui: A free Uharc 0.4 Gui with SFX and other features like preview of .uha file. |
| Free WinZIP Alternatives: A roundup and review of fully WinZIP-compatible freeware ZIP programs -- compared on the basis of usability. |
| FreeZip: Windows zip utility that prides itself on being small, fast and efficient. |
| Gzip: Open source command line data stream compressor and archiver. |
| ICEOWS: Windows compression utility using the ARJ format (was called ArjFolder). Can extract, test, and view files stored in ZIP, GZIP, TAR, CAB, RAR, ACE, PK3, etc. and create SFX executables. |
| JustZIPit: Small and simple contextual menu based zip program with full ZIP-64 huge-archive compression. |
| LZX: Encoding for Amigas that uses large match offsets and file merging. |
| MultiZipper: Unzip program for Windows that doesn't prompt before overwriting files. Supports shell links, drag and drop, and command line. |
| Quick Zip: Free zip compression utility for Windows, create, extract, and testing for zip archives. |
| StuffIt Expander: Decompresses all files in any of the StuffIt formats. It will also decode single and multi-part BinHex files. [Win/Solaris/Linux/Mac] |
| Tugzip: Free archiving utility with Windows integration, script support and ZIP-64 for huge archives. Website provides a free support forum. |
| UltimateZip: Supports a wide variety of archive types, creates self extracting archives, integrates with mail and virus scan, and integrates with Windows Explorer. |
| WinBZip2: A small GUI utility for working with files in bzip2 format, compressing, decompressing and testing the integrity of bzip2 files. |
| WinGZip: A small GUI utility for working with files in gzip format. It allows to compress any file into gzip format, decompress and test the integrity of already gzipped files. |
| WinImp: Extracts ZIP, ARJ, RAR, TAR as well as higher-compression IMP format. Includes drag-and-drop capability and creation of custom SFX files which can launch a file after unpacking. |
| XStandard Zip Component: ZIP or unzip a file or folder using a single line of code with this free component. [ActiveX DLL] |
| Zip 2 Secure EXE: Utility to convert any ZIP file into a self-extracting executable. Supports AES encryption, can unpack automatically to a temporary directory and run a setup.exe after extraction. |
| zipdiff: An open source Java utility for comparing two zip files. Also suitable for JAR, EAR, WAR and RAR files. |
| Zipfocus: A small zip file reader for general use or restoring backups from floppy/flash/cd drive. |
| ZipFree 2000: ZIP tool with integrated virus check and integrated emailing for quick ZIP and send. Supports SFX creation and pre-extraction viewing. |
| ZIPGenius: A full-featured ZIP program with SFX and ZIP-64 support. Also supports AES encryption 7-ZIP format and integrated image-viewing. |
| ZipItFast: ZIP program with a skinned interface and full support for over 20 compression formats. |
| Zipper: Can zip, unzip and make executable files, and view unzip directories before software installation. |
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