I mentioned earlier that Zip Pro can burn your files to disk. This can be quite a time saver because some servers simply reject any emails over a certain size, the upshot being that you may not know about it until the next day or later, which in my case might mean I’ve missed a deadline.

In fact if you use Outlook as well you can set a size trigger that will automatically compress any files that exceed the set size. If you use Microsoft’s Office you’ll now have the facility to compress and encrypt your Word and Excel files from within the applications using 256 bit encryption.

So creating zip files is as simple as selecting them and because the latest version includes multi core support it does the compression a lot faster than before. For example, once it’s installed all the zip facilities are available from your right mouse button. However, Zip Pro is primarily designed to handle all types of compression formats and this it does a lot better than most. The main screen provides access to all the features. Basically because it’s a more complete system than the windows default explorer, you can email directly from it, send or archive via FTP, access the cloud, compress files and burn them to whatever device you have installed and do all the usual things you can do with Windows explorer. Some might consider this a retrograde step but personally I find it very useful. It’s also had a facelift to make it more touch friendly and now includes a split explorer window, to make the job of file management easier. Yet before long you’ll come across a compressed file you can’t open.Īs the name implies this is the second version of the program, which has recently been updated with a lot more features and faster compression capabilities. As it happens all current versions of Windows will open zip files, so you may not have noticed. compressed files in one format or another. So what you need is an all encompassing program like this latest release from Ashampoo called Zip Pro 2. Or likely candidates are Tar, Rar, Sit, Sqx, Cab and many others. If you’ve used a computer for at least couple of weeks you’ll already have come across zip files.

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