![]() The Actions menu contains all important functions of WinZip: adding, deleting, viewing, extracting an archive and also other tools such as: Virus scan, split, encrypt, test, make. Browsing through them, you will surely realize that the only one you'll use often is Actions. The menus in WinZip are not very well balanced. You cannot browse through your computer inside WinZip if you want to open an archive, you'll have to use the Open button (or CTRL+O). The first thing you'll notice missing will probably be the file browser. Although the buttons (as functionality, but also as design) are very good choices, the fact that they're not customizable (you cannot remove the text or make them smaller) is an important minus. The main screen has a simple interface, with buttons for the most important functions at the top. Probably the archiver everyone has heard about, WinZip presents itself as a very user friendly and easy to use application. Before I start making an analysis on them, I must mention two things: First of all, this review is mostly a guide for beginners, so they should know what to expect (that's why I did not made complex tests about their performance, just compressed a few types of files that almost anybody uses) second: I did not use only my personal computer for these tests (not everybody has a 3200 MHz processor and I felt the need to present realistic compression times, but also confirmed on another computer). The top three programs were: WinRAR, WinAce, WinZIP. I went on Softpedia's Compression Tools category and sorted shareware archivers by downloads. So what do we do to bring their size closer to these kind of files? We, of course, shrink them by using a compression tool. ![]() ![]() Everybody uses different types of files, most of them are compressed, but still a DOC, BMP or WAV are sometimes necessary, although their size is a lot bigger than other file types in their category. Some like to say that size doesn't matter, but when it comes to files on my computer, I must certainly disagree.
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