It's not cheap, but WinZip 19 effortlessly outperforms the freeware competition, and if you need real archiving power then it's definitely worth a look.WinZip now lets you access key features more easily, share links to files in the cloud, and zip and protect with confidence: Note: the download is an installer stub, which will offer to include additional, potentially unwanted, programs as part of the download. You can open just about any archive, or create one of your own there's fast archiving with optional strong encrption you get JPEG compression of up to 25% with no loss of quality and there's a built-in 'convert to PDF' tool, image conversion and watermarking tools, a direct 'zip and email' feature which works with most of the main services, and the list goes on (and on, and on). As we write the Explorer add-on is free with the purchase of WinZip 18, while the others are $9.95 each.Īnd of course there are all the features from the previous edition.

Right-clicking a file in Explorer, say, opens a WinZip dialog with basic archive, encryption and sharing tools, while the Outlook add-on helps you send large files. There are now separate 'WinZip Express Add-Ons' which bring common WinZip features to Explorer, Microsoft Outlook, Photos and SharePoint. Wherever your files are going, an optimised zip engine means they'll be smaller than ever before. The program now supports more cloud services, too: Box, CloudMe, Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, SugarSync and ZipSend. WinZip makes it much easier to work with cloud files, for example, whether it's grabbing files from your accounts, saving an archive there, saving files between services, or sharing links to your cloud files via email, instant messaging or social media. And this edition is mostly about the cloud.

It's been around for a very long time, but somehow veteran archiving tool WinZip still manages to find new ways to build on its already comprehensive feature set.

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