Bandizip 7.44

Bandizip is a fast, feature-rich archiver supporting 30+ formats, multi-core compression, encryption, and Windows 11 context menu integration.

Razvan Serea News Reporter Neowin · Jun 10, 2026 03:00 EDT with 0 comments

Bandizip

Bandizip is a powerful archiver which provides an ultrafast processing speed and convenient features. Available free of charge, and its paid editions support a variety of advanced features.

Main features

Supported OS: Windows 7/8/8.1/10/11 (32bit/64bit/arm64)
All-inclusive compression / decompression / browsing / editing Archiver
Extraction for 30+ formats, including RAR/RAR5/7Z/ZIP
Compressing an archive with password and multi-volume
Fast compression with multi-core
Windows 11 Context Menu support

Compression

Supported formats: ZIP, 7Z(lzma2), ZIPX(xz), EXE(sfx), TAR, TGZ, LZH(lh7), ISO(joliet), GZ, and XZ
ZIP file modification (add/delete/rename)
Up to 6 times faster compression using multi-core
Encrypted archive creation
Supports AES256 encryption algorithm
Supports compression of 4GB+ size files
Unicode or MBCS filename for ZIP format
Multi-volume archive creation of ZIP/7z format

Decompression

Supported formats: 7Z, ACE, AES, ALZ, ARJ, BH, BIN, BR, BZ, BZ2, CAB, Compound(MSI), DAA(1.0), DEB, EGG, GZ, IMG, ISO, ISZ, LHA, LZ, LZH, LZMA, PMA, RAR, RAR5, SFX(EXE), TAR, TBZ/TBZ2, TGZ, TLZ, TXZ, UDF, WIM, XPI, XZ, Z, ZIP, ZIPX, ZPAQ, PEA, UU, UUE, XXE, ASAR, ZSTD, and NSIS
Easy view of an archive's file list
Extraction of selected files only. Also supports drag & drop
Availability of ZIP & RAR format archive comment
One-step extraction of TGZ/TBZ formats

Various features

File integrity check test to ensure whether an archive is damaged or not
Supports Code-page change features
Explorer shell menu integration

Bandizip 7.44 changelog:

Fixed a vulnerability that certain file extensions are not recognized as executable files (KVE-2026-0830)
Fixed a vulnerability that could occur when processing hard links in some (specially crafted) TAR archives (KVE-2026-0925)
Fixed a vulnerability that could occur when processing symbolic links in some TAR archives (KVE-2026-0932)
Fixed a vulnerability related to some ISZ files (Thanks to zzoru)
Fixed a vulnerability related to some UDF files (Thanks to zzoru)
Other modifications