Need help opening RAR and ZIP files? BitZipper is a data compression tool for Windows that enables you to open 47 different compression and encoding formats with superior ease-of-use. Read more below.
New to data compression, ZIP and RAR (WinRAR) files?
A ZIP or RAR file is a collection of documents, movies, programs or other files that have been reduced in size (compressed) and stored together in a single archive file. To access the original files inside an archive file (to "unzip" or "extract" them), you need a tool like BitZipper.
Want to learn more about compressed files?
If you have downloaded or received a compressed file of a certain type and want to learn more about it, read on. BitZipper will open all of these files and create several of them too. Click the file type to learn more about it:
001, 7Z, ACE, ARC, ARJ, BH, BZIP2, BZ2, CAB, CHM, CHW, CPIO, DEB, DMG, DOC, ENC, EXE, GZ, GZIP, HFS, HXS, ISO, JAR, LHA, LZH, LZMA, MSI, PPT, RAR, RPM, TAR, TBZ, TGZ, TXZ, UU, UUE, WAR, WinRAR, WIM, XAR, XXE, XLS, XZ, Z, ZIP, ZIPX, ZOO - with more to come!
Think working with compressed files is hard?
A visual step by step guide showing you how to open a RAR file and other compressed files is available here. It's really quite simple!
Need more than just opening ZIP and RAR files?
BitZipper will open almost any compressed file you will ever come across, but it does much more than that.
Powerful built-in file viewer
When you open files with BitZipper, you can view the content directly from within BitZipper using a powerful built-in file viewer. It can view text files and almost any picture file format, including BMP, BW, CEL, CUT, DIB, EMF, EPS, FAX, GIF, ICB, ICO, JFIF, JPE, JPEG, JPG, PBM, PCC, PCD, PCX, PGM, PIC, PNG, PPD, PPM, PSD, PSP, RGB, RGBA, RLA, RLE, RPF, SCR, SGI, TGA, TIF, TIFF, VDA, VST, WIN and WMF.
Protects your sensitive data
Encrypt your data and protect it from prying eyes. BitZipper supports strong AES encryption which is an encryption standard endorsed by the NSA. Enter a password when creating your ZIP file and BitZipper will apply strong encryption to your files and keep them safe.
One tool for everybody
BitZipper comes with 4 interfaces, satisfying both new users and power users. It has a very friendly Wizard interface for new users, a Windows Explorer-style (Classic) interface for experts, a batch (bulk) processing interface for power downloaders and an interface accessible directly from Windows Explorer.
Backup to standard ZIP format
Use Backup Sets (archive templates) to define which files and folders to back up, and activate your backup by the click of a button. Your backed up files can be accessed by BitZipper or any other tool capable of reading standard ZIP files.
Many handy features
Working with compressed files should be no more difficult than working with your web browser or word processor. In BitZipper you will find handy features like multiple open archives, searching for files in archives and export of the archive content list to Word, Excel, text or HTML format - features you will not find in the average ZIP tool.
10 good reasons to get BitZipper today
Open a multitude of compressed files like ZIP, ZIPX and RAR
Reduce file sizes more than standard ZIP files with ZIPX New feature
Built-in file viewer for viewing pictures and text files New feature
Browse compressed files in Windows Explorer style
Protect data with strong AES 256-bit encryption
Get help from an easy-to-use Wizard interface
Extract and test multiple files at once using the Batch Tool
Payment options for everybody. Card, Wire, PayPal, Check
Works on Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7 and Server editions
BitZipper version history
BitZipper has been actively developed since 1999!
BitZipper 2010, released March 30, 2010
New features
A powerful built-in file viewer has been added so BitZipper no longer needs to rely on external viewers to view text files, images, videos etc. It supports the following file formats: Alias/Wavefront images (*.rla, *.rpf), Autodesk images (*.pic, *.cel), Device independant Windows bitmaps (*.dib), Dr. Halo images (*.cut), Encapsulated Postscript images (*.eps), Graphics Interchange Format (*.gif), GFI fax images (*.fax), JFIF images (*.jfif), JPE images (*.jpe), JPEG images (*.jpg, *.jpeg), Kodak Photo-CD images (*.pcd), Macintosh TIFF images (*.tiff), PC TIF images (*.tif), Paintshop Pro images (*.psp), Photoshop images (*.ppd, *.psd), Portable bitmap images (*.pbm), Portable gray map images (*.pgm), Portable network graphic images (*.png), Portable pixel map images (*.ppm), Run length encoded Windows bitmaps (*.rle), SGI black/white images (*.bw), SGI color images (*.sgi), SGI true color images (*.rgb), SGI true color images with alpha (*.rgba), Tagged image file format images (*.tiff), Truevision images (*.icb, *.tga, *.vda, *.vst, *.win), Windows bitmaps (*.bmp), Windows enhanced meta files (*.emf), Windows icons (*.ico), Windows metafiles (*.wmf), Word 5.x screen capture images (*.scr), ZSoft Paintbrush images (*.pcc, *.pcx), Multimedia Files (all supported by Windows Media Player: *.avi, *.mpg, *.wmv, *.mp3, etc.), Internet Files (all supported by Internet Explorer: *.html, *.xml, *.doc, *.xls, etc.), Rich Text File (*.rtf), Text files (*.txt, *.doc, *.nfo, *.diz, *.inf, etc.)
ZIPX extraction and creation support. Achieve better compression than standard ZIP files using PPMd and BZip2 compression. Often chosing PPMd as the compression method will result in much smaller files.
XZ and TXZ extraction support. XZ is a lossless data compression file format that uses the LZMA2 compression algorithm. An XZ file can contain one compressed file only, like GZip.
Simplified the Extract Files window to make it even easier to use.
Added support for ISO files larger than 2 GB.
Minor changes and fixes
Added more sensible default folders for Add, Extract, New and Open operations.
Better handling of wrongly entered passwords. If you entered a wrong password when extracting a RAR file, sometimes you would see a message that the archive was damaged. This has been changed to display that a wrong password was entered.
Improved DMG and HFS file compatibility.
Version 2009 introduced a problem with extraction of TAR files containing filenames longer than 100 characters. Corrected.
Better handling of archives containing filenames with invalid Windows characters (archives created on e.g. Mac and Unix computers).
BitZipper no longer tries to associate itself with .JAR files during installation even if the extension is not in use, as some "PC Security" suites didn't like this.
Only part1 of multi-part RAR archives are now displayed in the Batch Tool. BitZipper will automatically find and use the other parts, and it would give an error message if you tried working on other parts than part 1. This is also explained in a new informational message that is displayed when the folder contains multi-part RAR archives.
The Batch Tool no longer displays an error message saying that the archive is damaged if you click Cancel on the password entry screen.
Size: 7.84 MB
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