PowerArchiver 2015 15.04.03 + Key

With the amount of compression tools available on the market nowadays, the choice mostly relies on your priorities: speedy compression and extraction, small archives after compression, or extra tools to enhance the program's functionality.

PowerArchiver has a bit of everything and stands out in the crowd thanks to its rich set of features.

The interface mostly contains elements you find in any common archiver. Before you run it the first time, you can choose whether to enable advanced options or not, but this preference can be later modified.

Speedy compression and extraction tasks

After taking it for a spin, you may probably remain impressed, as it manages to quickly compress files and extract archive content from numerous types of files (including .rar if WinRAR is installed). In our tests, it managed to pull files from a 2.5GB archive in around a minute. As expected, it was high-demanding regarding CPU and RAM.

After setup, the tool adds new entries to the Windows Explorer context menu to easily compress files to encrypted .zip or .7z archives, upload them to a cloud account or via FTP, or compile them into ISO images to burn them later, among others.

Batch tools, cloud storage, FTP client, backups, and disc burner

The application gives you the possibility to process multiple files at a time when it comes to compression and extraction using batch tools. Moreover, an integrated converter lets you quickly modify archive formats.

Cloud sharing is supported for Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Azure, S3, Attachment Cloud, Attachment Cloud Beta, and Box. You can also use a built-in FTP client to download and upload files, create full, incremental and differential backups that run automatically within a custom scheduler, or resort to an integrated disc burner to burn archives, ISO images and other types of files, as well as to erase rewritable discs.

Conclusion

To sum it up, PowerArchiver proves to be a reliable, fast and versatile utility designed not only for compressing files and extracting archive content, but also for connecting to cloud storage accounts or FTP servers, as well as for burning discs. The default configuration should be enough for beginners, while the in-depth customization preferences should satisfy the requirements of pros.

Features:

»» Complete built-in support (including creating archives and adding files) for ZIP, CAB, LHA (LZH), TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2 and BH (BlakHole) files, and built-in support for reading and extracting many other file formats: RAR, ARJ, ARC, ACE, ZOO, GZ and BZIP2
»» Built-in support for XXE and UUE encoded files
»» Many powerful archive operations (including: renaming files in archive, spanning archives, testing archives, viewing and writing comments, installing archives, and checking archives for viruses)
»» Internal viewer that supports TXT, RTF, BMP, ICO, WMF, EMF, GIF and JPG (JPEG) files
»» Skinnable toolbar
»» Drag and Drop from/to Windows Explorer and the Desktop
»» Two ways of viewing archives (Classic - all files in the same listing; Explorer - browsing through an archive like folders in Windows Explorer)
»» Creating powerful ZIP, RAR, ARJ, LHA and BH self-extracting archives
»» Complete integration with Windows (extracting archives and creating archives directly from Windows Explorer using powerful "Explorer Shell Extensions")
»» Viewing files in all view styles, including "as a Web page"
»» Converting between file formats (for example: changing a ZIP archive to CAB archive, or LHA archive to ZIP archive)
»» Tool for repairing corrupted ZIP archives
»» Tool for extracting multiple archives at once
»» Tool for creating backup scripts and running automated backups
»» Auto Update to automatically download and install new versions of PowerArchiver
»» Batch Zip function to create multiple different archives at once
»» Favorite Folders to quickly locate archives
»» Printing file list to printer, or exporting file list to HTML or TXT files
»» Powerful help in HTML and a tutorial with pictures for beginners
»» Many, many other useful and powerful features

System Requirements:

»» 150 MB for the program files plus some additional space for backup files (minimal)
»» Multicore processor recommended for best speed

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