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WinZip is the original and most trusted file compression software for Windows. No other compression utility is as easy-to-use or offers the comprehensive feature set and productivity-enhancing approach that has made WinZip the gold standard in file compression tools. The new WinZip 14 provides deep integration with Windows, including Microsoft’s latest operating system—Windows 7—as well as innovative features that improve zipping security and simplicity.

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WinZip stands for decompression and compression. It is certainly the most popular program to manage archives, thanks to a very simple interface and many years of honored service. Also compared to other programs, WinZip is better due to its excellent performance in terms of speed when working with files of medium/large size.

WinZip has many advantages. Menu settings offer access to many interesting options. To be able to split the archives into smaller parts, encrypt with password and select the type of compression. WinZip supports Zip, Zipx, RAR, 7Z, BZ2, LHA/LZH, Cabinet, Disc Image, TAR, GZIP, UUencode, XXencode, MIME and BinHex file formats.

WinZip 14 offers full Windows 7 support which includes Libraries, Jump Lists, Explorer Preview, Touch Screen and Common Dialogs and Task Dialogs features. Most operations like add and extract can be accessed directly with a right click in Windows Explorer.

WinZip 14 introduces enhanced security including automatic wiping. It helps you to keep your confidential information safe. When you open and encrypted file, WinZip creates a temporary copy of the file and wipes it using the U.S. Department of Defense standard (DoD 5220.22-M) making it sure that temporarily extracted copies of encrypted files can’t be recovered.

WinZip is one of the best compression tools available and offers everything you need to work with compressed archives.