Bandizip 7.0 is out, still free but ad-supported

Bandizip is a lightweight, fast and free All-In-One Zip Archiver. Bandizip has a very fast Zip algorithm for compression & extraction with Fast Drag and Drop, High Speed Archiving, and Multi-core compression. It handles the most popular compression formats, including Zip, 7z, Rar, and so on.

Compression and Extraction:

• Zip(z01), ZipX(zx01), TAR, TGZ, LZH, ISO, 7Z(7z.001), and EXE(e01)

Extraction Only Only:

• RAR(part1.rar, r01), ACE, AES, ALZ, APK, ARJ, BH, BIN, BZ, BZ2, CAB, EGG, GZ, J2J, JAR, IMG, IPA, ISZ, LHA, LZMA, PMA, TBZ, TBZ2, TGZ, TLZ, TXZ, UDF, WAR, WIM, XPI, XZ, and Z.

Other features:

• Support Unicode to display international characters which displays for filenames in archives
• Bypass files that don't compress well using the "High Speed Archiving" function
• Extract the files to the destination folder directly by "Fast Drag & Drop" function
• Create self-extracting files (.EXE) and multi-volume (split) archives
• Optional archive encryption using ZipCrypto and AES 256
• Context Menu access including "Preview Archive" function
• Create or extract multiple zip files simultaneously from windows explorer
• Free to use at both home and in the office

Bandizip 7.0 Beta changelog:

• Bandizip 7.0 Beta 1 has been released on Oct 1, 2019.
• Advanced compression settings
• Password manager
• Using an online installer
• Decompressing NSIS format on its own without relying on external libraries
• Decompressing UDF format on its own without relying on external libraries (support for UDF 2.60)
• Decompressing PMA (LHA) format in PM1 method
• Improved speed in compression and decompression
• Improved speed in decompression of RAR5 file
• Improved speed in decompression of some types of 7Z file
• Improved support for DOS SFX format
• Improved support for ZIP file compressed in MBCS on Unix
• New feature processing hard-linked files in TAR format
• New feature pre-allocating disk space for an output file
• (Minimizing disk fragmentation and improving speed in decompression)
• New command “rn” for command line interface
• Changed name of command line compression tool for console (bc.exe → bz.exe)
• Advertisements appear on Bandizip Standard Edition.

Since v7.0, Bandizip is released in 3 types of editions:

• Standard Edition: Free of charge, available for commercial and non-commercial use, some features limited.

• Professional Edition: Sold to individual users.

• Enterprise Edition: Sold to enterprise users. (edition comparison)

Download: Bandizip 7.0 Beta 4 | 253 KB - web installer (Free, paid upgrade available)
View: Bandizip Home Page

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