Supported Systems
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista,
MD5 Checksum
2B8933F6D1F2802DD0FE95C84AAC60C7
SHA1 Checksum
C0107E9A0EB40C18C7B9EE7FC9FA9BA5FE80BC72
Release Date
10 December, 2001 (19 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.
WinZip Features
- Make smaller zip files
- Explorer style view
- Automatically split larger files
- Command line support
- 128 and 256 bit encryption