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WinZip 8.1 (Beta)

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Winzip 8.1 (Beta)





Price : $29 (one copy)


Meant for: All PC users


Features: Enhanced explorer integration, splitting, Windows XP compatible.


Contact: Evaluation version at www.winzip.com


The latest incarnation has many new features like Virus scanner support and file formats like CAB, TAR, MIME, and UUEncode. It is also compatible with Windows XP. Also, most dialog boxes can now be resized and ‘splitting’ has now replaced the earlier disk-spanning feature. Disk spanning lets you span a zip file across multiple disks. Its drawbacks were that you couldn’t add more files to an existing archive and it worked only with removable disks. Splitting on the other hand works with hard drives as well. This is useful when transferring huge files on the Internet, like in web based e-mail.

However, you’ll need WinZip 8.1 at the other end also.

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You can select multiple zip files and extract their contents with a single click. You can even print a listing of files in a zip file or extract your files to recently-used folders by using commands available in the context menu. There is also a Zip and E-mail Plus feature that lets you zip a file, password protect it, and e-mail it quickly. Also it sits in your in your task-bar tray.

The software is priced at $29 (one copy) and offers support for foreign languages like German, Japanese, and French.

Ankur Saxena at PCQ Labs

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