PowerArchiver is an archive utility that provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools through an easy-to-use interface that seamlessly integrates with Windows Explorer.

PowerArchiver natively supports ZIP, 7-Zip, CAB, LHA (LZH), TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, BH, RAR, ARJ, ARC, ACE, ZOO, GZ, BZIP2, XXE, MIME, UUE, and YENC file formats plus ISO, BIN and NRG disc images, with compression profiles that store frequently used settings. PowerArchiver creates and works with unlimited-size ZIP archives and features enhanced 7-Zip support to offer the highest compression ratios. Encrypt your archives using five methods, including 256-bit AES, and store your frequently used passwords. Back up your work with PA Backup Express and FTP support, and create powerful self-extracting (SFX) archives.

And hundreds of other great features:

* Preview files in archives on your hard drive without extracting them
* Full Windows 7 support with jumplists, overlays and much more!
* Work with the best shell extensions on the market!


Announcing the best PowerArchiver to date!

* Brand new ZIP engine (multicore optimized) with the best format support
* Professional version with Backup/FTP/Burner/Virtual Drive
* Superior interface with both Ribbon style and Classic toolbar options

Multicore optimized -- use the full potential of your PC!

* Multicore compression leads to up to 4x speed improvement compared to WinZip
* Optimized UnRar extracts up to 30% faster than WinRar
* Improves speed of startup, compression, and extraction even on older computers

New super-fast ZIP engine!

* Support for Unicode, ZIPX (lzma, bz2, wavpack and ppmd), unlimited file sizes, and AES encryption
* Excellent format support for maximum compatibility: ZIP, ZIPX, RAR, TAR, ISO, and more than 20 formats supported
* 9 different tools to manage your archives

Need more features? Try PowerArchiver Professional!

* CD/DVD/Blu-ray burner, ripper and Virtual Drive tools
* Professional backup with burner, FTP, logging, scheduler, and superior compression options
* Lightweight FTP client

Features:

· 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