- Iz great.
- Iz my favourite compressed file archive utility.
- Iz what you should be downloading right now.
I probably don’t need to say much more than that but I’d better anyway.
I used to use ICEOWS and it was great. Working with archives as if they were just another folder felt nice, but it was missing that one little feature that WinZip provided: the ability to drag and drop a file from out of an archive (zip etc) file and onto an application. IZArc lets you do just about everything that WinZip does, and more.
It opens just about anything: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CDI, CAB, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MBF, MDF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO.
I don’t even know what half of them are, but I sleep so much better knowing that I can open them. And it can create a bunch of them too: 7-ZIP, BGA, BH, BZ2, CAB, JAR, LHA, TAR, TGZ, YZ1, and, of course, everybody’s favourite: ZIP.
You can integrate it with Windows Explorer to give you right-click functions such as “Extract to…” and “Add to “. You can hook it up to your virus scanner, you can change the toolbar skin, or even create your own skins if you’re so inclined. You can make self-extracting archives (these can be quite powerful), encrypt files, repair broken archives, search in multiple archives, the list goes on! And would you believe it… it comes with a help file.
Anyway, enough already… download it and start “compress[ing] the future”, whatever the hell that means.
