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Softpedia Editor's Review for Universal Extractor
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Universal Extractor is a program do to exactly what it says: extract files from any type of archive
Written by Elena Opris on November 1st, 2011
The moment you become an internet power user who downloads a lot of files on a regular basis, you may come across some archived ones that are not supported by your current compression tool.
Looking for various such tools is not that effective. Each one of them can work only on certain types of archived files, and you end up wasting a lot of time in the process.
The simplest solution here is to have an extractor that works with all (or at least most) archive types, like Universal Extractor.
We are referring to a very simple program that doesn't have any special features, and the user interface is extremely simple.
During setup, you can enable Explorer context menu integration, such as Add UniExtract Files, Add UniExtract Here, and Add UniExtract to Subdir.
You select the archived file or installer you wish to extract, the destination directory, and go!
In Preferences you can set up the language of the application, the debug file directory, keep track of archive history, and enable/disable warning before executing files, removing duplicate files, removing temporary files, or appending missing file extensions.
This small tool is amazing, and free!
It may even compete with more famous names, such as WinRar or 7-Zip if updates will be done as soon as a new type of archives appears.
CPU and memory usage is barely noticeable, and we couldn't find one bad thing about Universal Extractor.
What are you waiting for? This must be one of the first software you store on your computer when have just re-installed Windows.
Read an in-depth analysis in our professional review for Universal Extractor
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Universal Extractor description
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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Added support for environmental variables (eg., specify %temp% for debug dir)
· Added support for XZ compressed files and txz/tlz archives via 7-Zip
· Added support for Windows Installer merge modules (.msm) via MsiX
· Added support for NBH files via NBHextract
· Added translations for Armenian, Czeck, Persian (Farsi), Serbian, Swedish
· Changed 7-Zip unpacking behavior; now attempts brute force extraction only after External PEiD scan; change due to aggressive .exe resource extraction in new versions
· Changed Windows installer support (.msi, .msp) to use MsiX instead of msi2xml
· Changed LZMA support to use 7-Zip for extraction
· Changed FEAD support to use PEiD rather than TrID for detection
· Changed following formats to call 7z by name (also see 7-Zip debug comment): bz2, chm, gz, tar, Z this is mostly for code cleanup; functionality should be the same
· Fixed InstallShield 5.x regression in 1.6 preventing successful extraction
· Fixed bug in extraction of non-TAR LZW compressed files
· Fix...
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