WinZip Self Extractor

Features

New features in WinZip Self Extractor 4

NEW! Support for Jpeg Compression

Create self-extracting Zip files that contain files compressed with Jpeg compression, delivering up to 25% compression of JPEG images with no loss in quality

NEW! Support for LZMA Compression

Create self-extracting Zip files that contain files compressed with LZMA compression, delivering powerful compression for many file types

NEW! Support for WavPack Compression

Create self-extracting Zip files that contain files compressed with WavPack compression, delivering lossless compression of .WAV (audio) files

NEW! Support for Zipx files

Create self-extracting Zip files from .zipx files that are compressed with advanced compression technology.

NEW! Unicode Support

To ensure international characters are displayed for filenames in a Zip file

Support for Advanced Compression methods

Supports PPMd and Enhanced Deflate compressed files

Icon Support

WinZip Self-Extractor supports icon sizes of 16x16, 32x32, 48x48, 96x96, 128x128, and 256x256. Vista png format icons are also supported.

Administrator Options

WinZip Self-Extractor allows you to specify the privilege level at which self-extracting executables may be run. The “Run as Administrator' option lets you create self-extractors that will prompt Vista users for elevated privileges so self-extracting software installation packages have the required privilege level to run on the new OS.

Support for Advanced Encryption

Create self-extracting Zip files that contain AES, 128- or 256-bit key, encrypted files.

Wizard driven

WinZip Self-Extractor is wizard driven, which simplifies the process of building self-extracting Zip files.

Customisation

Easily create and customise your self-extracting Zip files.

Customise software installations

WinZip Self-Extractor can create self-extracting Zip files for software installation using custom icons and splash screen, set up and about box text, and can run .exe, .com, .bat or .inf files to facilitate software installation. Standard self-extractors can open any file type in its associated application.

Span disks

A self-extracting Zip file created by WinZip Self-Extractor can span multiple removable disks.

Invoke from Start/Run command

WinZip Self-Extractor can be run from the 'Start' menu's 'Run' dialog box by simply typing 'wzipse32'.

Self-extractors for software installation

WinZip Self-Extractor can create self-extracting Zip files for software installation that can run standard Microsoft-format .INF files as an alternative to 'setup' programs, and can clean up files even if the install process involves a reboot.

Issue optional command after unzip

There is no practical limit on the length of the optional command issued by self-extracting Zip files after the unzip operation completes.

International Language Messages

Self-extracting Zip files can be created with English or German messages.

Works with Windows Vista and Windows 7

WinZip Self Extractor works fine with the latest versions of Windows.

Editions

The current release of WinZip includes WinZip Self-Extractor Personal Edition, a subset of WinZip Self-Extractor.

Features available in WinZip Self-Extractor that are not available in the Personal Edition include:

• Features to automate and customise software installation, such as the ability to specify an icon and text for the main self-extractor dialog box, and to delete temporary files after running a setup program.
• Include sensitive information protected with 128- and 256-bit AES encryption.
• Create smaller self-extracting files from Zip files (.zip or .zipx) created with LZMA, Jpeg, WavPack, PPMd and Enhanced Deflate compression methods.
• Ability to run a command when the unzip operation completes.
• Self-extracting files can be created from the command line.
• Self-extractors can be created with English or German messages.
• Ability to automatically extract files when the self-extractor file is run.
• A Wizard to simplify the process of building self-extracting files.

System Req.

Requires one of the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7.