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PicoZip 2.12 has been released

PicoZip is an award winning file compression utility that runs on all 32-bit Windows platforms such as Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000 and XP. It is extremely easy to use, yet contains many advanced features that helps you create or unzip Zip files, as well as most other popular archive formats like RAR, ACE, LHA, JAR, etc. PicoZip is compatible with Zip files created by WinZip, PKZip and others.

New Features

  • Added new feature for viewing files within archive, where the user can configure an external viewer and set PicoZip to (a) Always use assosiated program (b) Always use the external viewer (c) Use external viewer only if there is no associated program (d) Ask user

  • Added new context menu items to allow a user to extract multiple archives to the current folder or to a user selected folder. User can also extract the archives to separate subfolders within the target folder.

  • Added feature to create shortcut to Backup Sets on desktop. Double-clicking on these shortcuts will run the backup immediately without needing to start PicoZip first.

  • Modified the "Batch Extract" feature to allow user to specify whether to extract to separate subfolders.
Bug Fixes
  • Fixed bug where the built-in explorer did not restore its previous state when PicoZip is started.

  • Fixed issues related to running PicoZip on multi-user Windows NT/2000/XP.

  • Fixed bug in the built-in archive file explorer, where an error message is shown when trying to open a file by double-clicking it, if user had configured Windows Explorer to hide known file extensions.
News source: PicoZip website

Download: PicoZip 2.12

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