Portable NoZip

With the help of Portable NoZip you can seamlessly merge multiple files into a single package as well as split them. This is a simple-to-use program that integrate a few settings, which are intuitive enough to be figured out by all user levels, along with steganography capabilities.

Since installation is not necessary, you can extract the program files anywhere on the disk and simply click the executable to launch Portable NoZip. Another option is to save it to a USB flash drive to run it on any PC directly, without previous installers. Moreover, it doesn't update the Windows registry with new entries.

The user-friendly UI is made of a basic window split into four frames, where you can easily join and split files, as well as configure settings. It's possible to merge as many files as you want, even if they are from different directories.

After inspecting the size of each item, you can change the file order and trigger the app to start the task. The new files are automatically created in the same location as the original items, and they have the .lof and .lofi extensions.

The files can be just as quickly put back together once you indicate the LOFi or LOFx files. This time, Portable NoZip lets you indicate the preferred saving directory as well as examine extraction information.

As far as general preferences are concerned, you can disable hashing, select another UI language, make file type associations for LOFi and LOFx, generate LOFx instead of LOF+LOFi, compile log files, as well as ask the program to run minimized in the tray and to exit on task completion.

File operations were carried out swiftly in our tests, during which the utility remained light on system resources usage. It didn't hang, crash or display error messages. Bottom line is that Portable NoZip offers a speedy and effective solution to cutting and joining files, and it can be handled by anyone. Too bad it hasn't been updated for a while.