FreeArc Portable

FreeArc Portable is a software utility which can help individuals easily archive, test or extract files. This is the portable version of FreeArc.

This means that you can easily skip the installation process and therefore, the Windows registry and Star menu/screen are not going to get updated with new entries.

In addition to that, you can use FreeArc Portable on any computer you have access to, by dropping the program files to a USB flash drive or other similar portable storage unit. It is also possible to copy the last mentioned files to any location on the hard drive in order to easily run the software tool from there, by simply clicking the executable.

The interface is very simple and displays a menu bar, several shortcut buttons for the most important actions available and all the files within an archive as a list along with details such as name, size and modified date and time.

There are a lot of options you can take advantage of, such as adding, testing, extracting and deleting files from an archive, as well as locking, recompressing or converting it to SFX.

Support is provided for many languages, there are several compression level users can choose between and log files are available for viewing and saving to the hard drive in a TXT format. It is possible to password-protect archives, as well as merge them.

During the compression or extraction process, CPU and memory usage is quite significant, yet the response time remains good.

To conclude, FreeArc Portable is quite a useful piece of software, with a feature-rich and user-friendly environment, as well as comprehensive Help contents.