AX-ZIP Archiver

Description

AX-ZIP Archiver is the utility for creation and management of ZIP archives. Extraction of files from other widely used archive formats is also supported. Original, double tree program interface allows to manipulate simultaneously several archives and to minimize the number of operations while working with archives. Work with items of archives is similar to work with files and folders in Windows Explorer. Besides, AX-ZIP Archiver is simple and convenient file manager.

Main Features

Full support of ZIP archives. Support of Deflate, Bzip2, LZMA and PPMd compressions methods for ZIP archives. Support of archiving plans: tables mapping file types to compression methods. Extraction from CAB, RAR, JAR, XAP, GZIP, BZIP2, XZ, TAR and 7Z archives. Extraction from ISO images (ISO 9660 and ISO 13346 "UDF"). Strong AES encryption (with key length of 128, 192 and 256 bits). Simultaneous work with several archives. One drag creation of archives and adding of files. One drag extraction of files from archive. Deletion and renaming of files and folders in the archive. Creation of folders in the archive. Search of archives and files within the archives. Bookmarks for archives and files in the archives. Support of cloud drives and special folders. Support of main file manager functions. Support of drag and drop technology. Display of archive structure as a tree. Familiar Explorer-like user interface.

Overview

AX-ZIP utility views ZIP archives and archives of other types as folders containing folders and files whose structure is shown as a tree. Thus the root folder of archive will be displayed as an icon associated with archives of that type. AX-ZIP Archiver working space is made up of two windows - Archive Browser and File Browser. Archive Browser contains a tree representing the structure of disks, folders and archives - files with extension of supported archive types. To open archive one should simply click "+" sign situated on the left of archive name. File Browser shows full structure of disks, folders and files. All operations in AX-ZIP Archiver concerning archive management involve dragging of items from one window to the other.

What's New in Version 4.6

For archiving plans, a pseudo-compression method SKIP has been added (skipping specified file types when adding to the archive). Added a tool to calculate the SHA-256 hash for a file. Added a tool to calculate the MD5 hash for a file. Added tools for encrypting and decrypting files using the AES algorithm. A dark theme has been added for the application UI. Added support for dynamically handling display scale factor (DPI) changes. To unpack RAR archives, unrar.dll version 6.10.3 is now used. To unpack 7z archives, 7zxa.dll version 21.07 is now used. Some minor bugs have been fixed.