Supported Systems
Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista
MD5 Checksum
9E31BA8854669157CC9AD5869DCA567F
SHA1 Checksum
08FD56FEB8F845726A225313D6AFEB01A233616B
Release Date
05 October, 1998 (15 years ago )
WinZip is a commercial file archiver designed for Microsoft Windows users, developed by WinZip Computing (formerly known as Nico Mak Computing). It uses PKWARE's PKZIP format, and can also handle a number of other archive formats. It is a commercial product with a free evaluation version.
WinZip began life around the early 1990s as a shareware GUI frontend for PKZIP. Somewhere around 1996 the creators of WinZip incorporated compression code from the Info-ZIP project, thus dispensing with the need for the PKZIP executable to be present.
- Make smaller zip files
- Explorer style view
- Automatically split larger files
- Command line support
- 128 and 256 bit encryption
