PeaZip is an archiver tool that supports its native Pea archive format (featuring compression, split volumes, and flexible encryption and integrity check schemes) and other mainstream formats, with special focus on handling open formats.

Full support: 7Z, 7-Zip sfx, Bzip2, Gzip, PEA, split TAR and ZIP.

Browse/test/extract-only support for ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, ISO, LZH, NSIS installers, OOo files, RAR, RPM, Z.

PeaZip's UI aims giving aid to the user to: edit, save and restore layout of archives (input files and folders list) to speed up definition of archiving and backup operations; save job definition, as plain text, to be used in scripts or for learning purpose; have a detailed job log after each operation.

The interface is fully skinnable (skins can be customised and saved as plain text to be re-edited as freely as possible) and uses customisable transparency.

PeaZip doesn't need to be installed/unistalled, it can run from any path (even remote; a writeable path is recommended), however Windows version is released both as a standalone binary and as a fully automated installer/uninstaller package, allowing tight system integration to use PeaZip right from Explorer.

PeaZip fundamentally acts as a graphic frontend for Pea executable (graphical) from the same Author and for Igor Pavlov's 7za executable(Myspace's 7z POSIX port under Linux), that can run in console mode or through a graphical wrapper to allow m

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· FILE MANAGER
· Item's height autosizes to fit system's DPI and fonts' size

New keyboard shortcuts:
· Ctrl+N create new folder
· Ctrl+R rename file
· Ctrl+U up to computer's or archive's root level

· Navigation menu
· History menu is now replicated in navigation menus
· Navigation menu in browser's context menu was grouped in a single entry
· Navigation menus now contains only navigation related entries: "Add to bookmarks" is now featured in "Misc" group in all context menus of the application

· Search
· recursivity option is remembered for the current session
· search dialog can optionally be directly raised with recursivity is unflagged (Ctrl+F3) or flagged (Shift+F3)
· Bookmarks panel: added "Explore path with PeaZip", "Explore path" and "Open command prompt here" entries in bookmarks' panel menu

· EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING
· Archiving and extraction interfaces now shows "Use advanced filters" switch
· It is possible to execute archiving/extraction jobs with no items in layou...