Bandizip is a powerful archiver which provides an ultrafast processing speed and convenient features. Available free of charge, and its paid editions support a variety of advanced features.
Main features
- Supported OS: Windows 7/8/8.1/10/11 (32bit/64bit/arm64)
- All-inclusive compression / decompression / browsing / editing Archiver
- Extraction for 30+ formats, including RAR/RAR5/7Z/ZIP
- Compressing an archive with password and multi-volume
- Fast compression with multi-core
- Windows 11 Context Menu support
Compression
- Supported formats: ZIP, 7Z(lzma2), ZIPX(xz), EXE(sfx), TAR, TGZ, LZH(lh7), ISO(joliet), GZ, and XZ
- ZIP file modification (add/delete/rename)
- Up to 6 times faster compression using multi-core
- Encrypted archive creation
- Supports AES256 encryption algorithm
- Supports compression of 4GB+ size files
- Unicode or MBCS filename for ZIP format
- Multi-volume archive creation of ZIP/7z format
Decompression
- Supported formats: 7Z, ACE, AES, ALZ, ARJ, BH, BIN, BR, BZ, BZ2, CAB, Compound(MSI), DAA(1.0), DEB, EGG, GZ, IMG, ISO, ISZ, LHA, LZ, LZH, LZMA, PMA, RAR, RAR5, SFX(EXE), TAR, TBZ/TBZ2, TGZ, TLZ, TXZ, UDF, WIM, XPI, XZ, Z, ZIP, ZIPX, ZPAQ, PEA, UU, UUE, XXE, ASAR, ZSTD, and NSIS
- Easy view of an archive"s file list
- Extraction of selected files only. Also supports drag & drop
- Availability of ZIP & RAR format archive comment
- One-step extraction of TGZ/TBZ formats
Various features
- File integrity check test to ensure whether an archive is damaged or not
- Supports Code-page change features
- Explorer shell menu integration
Bandizip 7.31 Beta 22 changelog:
- Added the "Run as administrator" option to the SFX settings
- Improved the way how the program deals with corrupted ZIP archives
- Fixed a bug that the program cannot open some corrupted ZIP archives
- Added a feature deleting orignial files after adding the files to an archive
- Improved the code page auto-detection
- Fixed a bug that the program crashes when handling some TIFF files
- Added a feature setting BandiView as the internal image viewer
- Modified the program: If you click the New Folder button when selecting the extraction path, now the archive"s name is given by default as the new folder"s name
- Added a function showing the sum of CRC of files in a folder
- Added a function automatically changing the shortcut key for the Context Menu > Compress to FileName.ZIP from Q to Z on Windows 11 OS build 22621 and later, to avoid shortcut key conflicts (For some languages)
- Other modifications
Download: Bandizip 7.31 Beta 22 | 10.5 MB (Free, ad-supported)
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