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WinZip

WinZip, the original and most popular compression utility for Windows, is a powerful, fast and easy-to-use tool that zips and unzips files quickly to conserve disk space and greatly reduce email transmission time. You can even compress JPEG files by 20-25% without losing photo quality, and manage and share digital photos more easily. WinZip integrates with Windows seamlessly, opens RAR, 7Z and other file types and offers AES encryption to keep files secure.

WinZip 12 adds support of creating ZIP archives with loseless JPEG and LZMA compression methods; .ISO, .IMG, 7-Zip archive extractions. Added encryption policies, integrated image thumbnail viewer. The JPEG compression compresses metadata with LZMA compression, while image is compressed with binary arithmetic coding. WinZip 12.1 introduces the new default .zipx file extension when creating ZIP archives using methods newer than Deflate64, added automatic resizing images being sent by using Zip and E-Mail functions.

Winzip can support Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista.

The related software:

Winrar: WinRAR complete supports of RAR and ZIP 2.0 archives.
7-zip: 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
Winace: WinAce is an archiving programfor compressed archive format and built-in support for other common archive formats types such as ZIP, RAR and MS-CAB.

Software - WinZip