PowerArchiver is one of the most powerful archive utilites available and has been downloaded by tens of millions of users worldwide.

PowerArchiver offers you hundreds of features, yet remains small, easy to use and fast. Novice users will find a familiar interface complete with tutorial and detailed help, while more experienced users can take advantage of full

Explorer integration, multiple encryption methods and advanced compression algorithms.

Here are some key features of "PowerArchiver":

· Complete built-in support (including creating archives and adding files) for ZIP, CAB, LHA (LZH), TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2 and BH (BlakHole) files, and built-in support for reading and extracting many other file formats: RAR, ARJ, ARC, ACE, ZOO, GZ and BZIP2
· Built-in support for XXE and UUE encoded files
· Many powerful archive operations (including: renaming files in archive, spanning archives, testing archives, viewing and writing comments, installing archives, and checking archives for viruses)
· Internal viewer that supports TXT, RTF, BMP, ICO, WMF, EMF, GIF and JPG (JPEG) files
· Skinnable toolbar
· Drag and Drop from/to Windows Explorer and the Desktop
· Two ways of viewing archives (Classic - all files in the same listing; Explorer - browsing through an archive like folders in Windows Explorer)
· Creating powerful ZIP, RAR, ARJ, LHA and BH self-extracting archives
· Complete integration with Windows (extracting archives and creating archives directly from Windows Explorer using powerful "Explorer Shell Extensions")
· Viewing files in all view styles, including "as a Web page"
· Converting between file formats (for example: changing a ZIP archive to CAB archive, or LHA archive to ZIP archive)
· Tool for repairing corrupted ZIP archives
· Tool for extracting multiple archives at once
· Tool for creating backup scripts and running automated backups
· Auto Update to automatically download and install new versions of PowerArchiver
· Batch Zip function to create multiple different archives at once
· Favorite Folders to quickly locate archives
· Printing file list to printer, or exporting file list to HTML or TXT files
· Powerful help in HTML and a tutorial with pictures for beginners
· Many, many other useful and powerful features

Limitations:

· 30 days trial
· Nag screen

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

New Features:
· Support for extracting ZIPX JPEG format, PowerArchiver becomes only application after WinZip 12 to fully support ZIPX format.
· Updated Burner engine.
· Burner now uses SPTD layer for burning if you install latest PAVD, for faster burning and improved access to drive.
· New file/folder selection with checkboxes for backup.
· "No to All" option added to all relavant continue dialogues.
· Open archive after creation option added to shell.

Improvements:
· Memory usage improvements - up to 1 MB less memory used.
· Faster explorer view (startup and browsing folders).
· Improved select folder window (faster).
· PA uses ZIP as default compression when PA has not been run.
· Spanning now enabled when Queue is used.
· PA Starter improvements (unicode, interface, etc).
· MRU's are now being saved during shell actions as well.
· Improved behaviour when extracting single files out of huge rars.

Bug Fixes:
· spanned 7zip files showing compress to shell options
· if overwrite fails, PA does ...