The world's most popular Zip utility WinZip has released a new version. WinZip 14.5 represents one of the most significant enhancements to WinZip in years! This release delivers an entirely new user experience*, unveiling numerous key features and dramatically simplifying the product. With its unprecedented level of functionality and unparalleled user interface, no wonder WinZip is far and away the world's leading application for file compression, encryption, sharing, and data backup.

New features in WinZip 14.5 include:
* Microsoft Office 2010-style ribbon interface places key WinZip functionality right at your fingertips, simplifying essential tasks and increasing your productivity
* Support for Windows 7 Libraries, Jump Lists, Multi-Touch Gestures, and more makes working with Zip files effortless
* 'Zip' option on the Home tab works the way you think, letting you select the files you want to zip up, choose your zipping options, and save your Zip file wherever you decide
* 'Encrypt' check box makes it easier than ever to password protect your confidential files Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes we may need to print out a file list, contain all the files in the folder, file name, edit time, file size and file location… It is so boring to do that using common methods. With WinZip, we can do that easily.

First, right click the folder containing the file list you want to print, select "Add to Zip file", choose the location of the archive file and click "Add" button . In fact, this archive is only used to print file list, so we'll delete it after our printing. So, here we can leave the archive location as a default location and select "zip: no compression" to save time.

After a little while, the WinZip will show all the files in that folder. Read the rest of this entry »

WinZip is the original and most trusted file compression software for Windows. No other compression utility is as easy-to-use or offers the comprehensive feature set and productivity-enhancing approach that has made WinZip the gold standard in file compression tools.

With the newest version of WinZip, we can do many things in arhive as we do in the common folders. Read the rest of this entry »

Because of the default format of Microsoft Office Software 2007, many of them can be opened with WinRAR, so we can do many things with this function.

When we are using PowerPoint 2007, we save our document as .PPTX file if we use default setting. In fact, presentations saved in this format is a archive in ZIP format, we can open it with WinRAR.

If you have WinRAR in your computer, first open WinRAR and drag the PPTX file to the WinRAR window to open the PPTX file.

Double click to open the PPT folder, find out the MEDIA folder, and open it. Then you'll find all of the pictures of this PPTX file are here. Right click the MEDIA folder and extract it to some folder you want, you'll get all the pictures in the right folder. Read the rest of this entry »

We all have many secret files in our computer, many of us may set a password for them, I have tried that before , but my mother was very angry to see that and tried a variety of methods to "share the secret with me". Does your wife do the same thing to you? Now we can disguise our secret files with WinRAR, they even don’t know the existent of that secret file.

First, put the secret files and a MP3 file into one folder, select all and right click them, select "Add to archive".

Then, enter the name of MP3 file in the Archive name and parameters window, change the Compressed method to "Store". Read the rest of this entry »

Sometimes we want to extract files in certain format and compress them to be an archive.To do that, first we must select all the files with the same format and right click them, then select "Add to archive". It's so boring and we always missed some of the files and have to select again. In fact, after some easy steps, we can enhance right menu for WinRAR with this function.

First, create an item to extract all the files. Click Start menu and select "Run", enter "Regedit" to open the registry editor. Navigate to "KEY_CLASSES_ROOT/WinRAR/shell" , right click the shell menu and select New -> Key to create a new Kew under shell item, then name it "Compress TXT file".

Now right click on the new key and select New -> Key to create a "subkey" of the key we just created, rename this subkey "command" . Double click on the "Default" item in the right hand window , this brings up an Edit window which is used to set the default value. Enter ""C:Program Files/WinRAR/WinRAR.exe" a -r -ep "%1" "%1*.txt"" in the window (not include the double quotation marks outside), note that "C:Program FilesWinRARWinrar.exe" is the menu of WinRAR in my computer, you must change it to yours. Read the rest of this entry »

Comment can make our management of WinRAR files more easily, we can also add Serial number as the comment of software, so that we don't need another file to keep serial number. But to add archive comment , we need first open the RAR file and click the button…It’s so boring to do that, we can make the adding of comment more rappidly by right menu.

Click Start menu and select "Run", enter "Regedit" to open the registry editor. Navigate to "KEY_CLASSES_ROOT/WinRAR/shell", right click the shell menu and select New -> Key to create a new Kew under shell item, named it "Add Comment".

Now right click on the new key and select New -> Key to create a "subkey" of the key we just created, rename this subkey "command" . Double click on the "Default" item in the right hand window , this brings up an Edit window which is used to set the default value. Enter ""C:Program Files/WinRAR/Winrar.exe" c "%1"" in the window (not include the double quotation marks outside), note that "C:Program FilesWinRARWinrar.exe" is the menu of WinRAR in my computer, you must change it to yours. Read the rest of this entry »

We always download files which is compressed to more than one parts by author , for some reasons. We must keep all of these parts and every time we want to use this file, we must extract all of them. Of course, we can extract all of them , copy them to one folder, and compressed this folder instead. But it is so troublesome, isn't it? We can enhance right menu with two items to reach this purpose.

First, create an item to extract all the files. Click Start menu and select "Run", enter "Regedit" to open the registry editor. Navigate to "KEY_CLASSES_ROOT/WinRAR/shell" , right click the shell menu and select New -> Key to create a new Kew under shell item, named it "Merge - extract".

Now right click on the new key and select New -> Key to create a "subkey" of the key we just created, rename this subkey "command" . Double click on the "Default" item in the right hand window , this brings up an Edit window which is used to set the default value. Enter ""C:Program FilesWinRARWinrar.exe" x -ibck -ILOGrar.log -y "%1" c: emp”in the window (not include the double quotation marks outside), note that "C:Program FilesWinRARWinrar.exe" is the menu of WinRAR in my computer, you must change it to yours. Read the rest of this entry »

We have know how to add a "Extract to higher folder" menu to right mene of WinRAR, It's so convenient, isn't it? We can add other menus we like to the right menu, too.

Sself-extracting file in EXE format is one of the favorate files for rookies, we can extract these files without any compression software. But unfortunately, almost all the file we downloaded from the Internet is of RAR or ZIP format. So, we can add such a right menu to convert their format, and next time we can doublle click the files to extract them.

Click Start menu and select "Run", enter "Regedit" to open the registry editor. Navigate to "KEY_CLASSES_ROOT/WinRAR/shell" , right click the shell menu and select New -> Key to create a new Kew under shell item, named it "Convert to self-extracting file".

Now right click on the new key and select New -> Key to create a "subkey" of the key we just created, rename this subkey "command" . Double click on the "Default" item in the right hand window and this brings up an Edit window which is used to set the default value. Enter ""C:Program FilesWinRARWinrar.exe" s -ibck -y "%1"" in the window (not include the double quotation marks outside), note that "C:Program FilesWinRARWinrar.exe" is the menu of WinRAR in my computer, you must change it to yours. Read the rest of this entry »

We all know that WinRAR is a powerful compression tool and almost all the users of WinRAR must use right menu to compress. We can also do many other things with WinRAR, then we'll find that the right menu for WinRAR is not sufficient enough. Now, follow these steps to enhance your WinRAR right menu - Extract to higher folder.

Click Start menu and select "Run", enter "Regedit" to open the registry editor. Navigate to "KEY_CLASSES_ROOT/WinRAR/shell" , right click the shell menu and select New -> Key to create a new Kew under shell item, named it "Extract to higher folder".

Now right click on the new key and select New -> Key to create a "subkey" of the key we just created, rename this subkey "command" .

Note that in the right hand window the name "Default" and "value not set" appear. Double click on the "Default" and this brings up an Edit window which is used to set the default value. Enter ""C:Program FilesWinRARWinrar.exe" x -o- -ibck -ILOGrar.log -y "%1" .." in the window (not include the double quotation marks outside), note that "C:Program FilesWinRARWinrar.exe" is the menu of WinRAR in my computer, you must change it to yours. Read the rest of this entry »