
PowerArchiver Free fully supports Windows 7 with jump lists, taskbar progress and taskbar icon overlays, as well as other Windows operating systems from Win98 to Windows Vista, both 32bit and 64bit. Other notable features include fully integrated shell extensions, Backup Wizard, Encrypt/Multi Extract/Batch Compress/Archive Converter/Repair ZIP/ tools and ZIP/CAB/7-ZIP SFX archive wizard. If you want more formats, PowerArchiver has plugin system which can be used to add more formats support (msi, chm, etc). PowerArchiver supports following formats: ZIP, RAR, 7-ZIP, CAB, ACE, HA (LZH), TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, BH, XXE, UUE, yENC, and MIME (Base 64), ARJ, ARC, ACE, ZOO plus ISO, BIN, IMG and NRG disc image formats. PowerArchiver Free fully supports open source 7zip format which provides up to 50% stronger compression than zip, with some unique features available only in PowerArchiver such as optimized compression mode where best format is selected automatically. Other ZIP/ZIPX related features include full Unicode support, AES support and unlimited file size/number support.

PowerArchiver Free is the latest version of the award winning compression utility - now Free! New ZIP engine fully supports ZIPX archives (LZMA, JPEG, PPMD, WavPacl, BZ2 format support) and makes PowerArchiver the only compression utility fully compatible with WinZip 12/13/14.
