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Compression and archive tool for Windows

WinZip is a file compression tool for Windows, with a Mac version also available.

WinZip compresses files into various formats including:

  • LHA
  • zip
  • zipx

It's also able to open archives of format:

  • Zip (.zip)
  • Zipx (.zipx)
  • RAR (.rar)
  • 7Z (.7z)
  • BZ2 (.bz, .bz2, .tbz, .tbz2)
  • LHA/LZH (.lha, .lzh)
  • Cabinet (.cab)
  • Disc Image (.img, .iso)
  • TAR (.tar)
  • GZIP (.gz, .taz, .tgz)
  • Compress (.tz, .z)
  • UUencode (.uu, .uue)
  • XXencode (.xxe)
  • MIME (.b64, .mim)
  • BinHex (.bhx, .hqx)

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How do I reassemble a zip file that has been emailed in multiple parts?

I received 3 emails each containing part of a zip file. The extensions end in .z00, .z01 and .z02. (Emailed as such to get around the typical 10Mb attachment limit per email.) I have put all 3 files into one directory. I can use both 7-zip and…
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How to do "legacy" ZIP compression with 7zip?

We have an old application that requires zip files to be "legacy" format. I would really love to get rid of the adware ridden WinZip and use 7zip. However, I don't know which compression options and such equal out to "legacy". How to do it? For…
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Why should I prefer 7zip over WinZip in Windows environment?

I know Winzip is not free and 7-zip is free . Other than this is there any reason why I should use 7ZIP over Winzip for compression ? I am using Windows 7 .
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How can I create a password protected .zip file in Windows 10?

Winzip claims that it can create a password protected zip on Windows 10, but the Winzip installer fails part way during the installation on Win10. https://www.winzip.com/win/en/downwz.html Is there an alternative to Winzip?
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How can I remove empty paths from a zip file?

I have a zip file that contains a empty path, which I want to be rid of. How can I clear it, while maintaining the rest of the zip? When I open the item in winzip I cannot see the empty file, but upon extracting it, the empty path is created.
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Does the RAR compression algorithm compress better than the ZIP compression algorithm?

I took 3 test files and ZIPped them. With the 3 test files again I RARred them. Each .RAR archive is smaller than the corresponding .ZIP archive. Does the RAR compression algorithm give a better compression ratio than the ZIP compression…
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Maintain folder structure with WinRAR

Suppose my folder structure is: A -B --C ---D and in the D folder I have a file, say test.txt. How can I add this test.txt file to an archive so that the folder's hierarchy is also maintained in the zipped file? I.e when someone extracts the…
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How do I stop using Winzip and let Windows handle .zip files natively?

Anytime I download a .zip file or create a compressed folder, my PC makes it a Winzip file, which is no good because I don't want to pay their fee to get the full version (the version I have was a trial one I obtained when I had this one .zip file…
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How can I compress a large video file as much as possible e.g. 2 GB. to 200MB?

Recently I have received a very large 2 GB video file that was compressed to 200 MB inside a RAR file. How is this possible? I have tried this instruction but it did not work. The codec of the video is H264 - MPEG-4 AVC part10 avc1 Audio: mp4a…
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Mount ISO File with Native Windows Application When Having Different File Association

I have an .iso file association with WinZip and there's no default option for mounting the image instead of opening it in WinZip. Any suggestions? Again, I'd like to use the default native application only
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Batch Script for backup

I need a batch script that will zip up all files in a particular directory and save it to another directory in a YYYY/MM/DD-HH/MM/SS format. I've seen things similar but not sure about this. Thanks!
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Explorer.exe crash, immediately followed by crash of DrWatson Postmortem debugger (they named it???)

While unzipping files on a computer running windows xp, about half the time the above error in the title will occur, in which case I have to restart the computer to resume interaction. Why is this happening while unzipping, why doesnt it always…
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How do I create a Windows XP compressed folder in Winzip?

When you create a compressed folder in Windows XP it appears to be a standard zip file but it's not. That said WinZip 9.0 (dated 2004) can read it. However the Windows XP compressed folder support can't read a standard WinZip 9.0 created zip…
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How secure is winzip encryption?

Possible Duplicate: Is zip's encryption really bad? Just how secure is winzip (http://www.winzip.com/) encryption? Can you point me to any articles or anything like that where a zip has been cracked?
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robocopy can’t find newly zipped file for copy

I am working with a batch file that is being used to copy files from several remote servers to one central repository using robocopy. I am trying to zip the contents of a folder and then copy it but robocopy then returns the message: "Warning: name…
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