Reviews of ALZip

1. 
   yokozuna

   Reviewing 7.0 Beta 1 (Feb 13, 2008)

   Great archiver but with some quirks/peculiarities:
   - not able to utilise more than one core. I have tested several archive formats and only one core was used. My poor Quad was lazing all the time...
   - pity that it cannot create 7-Zip files
   - still in v. 7.0 beta, however, there is Korean ALZip 7.13 final. Translations are soooo hard? In general, the Korean versions of the program are far ahead
   - the webpage of ALTools is often dead
2. 
   Prospero424

   Reviewing 7.0 Beta 1 (Aug 12, 2007)

   Nice software, but I get the same error that Todd13 did on every spanned RAR file I've tried so far. That's just not going to cut it. But I didn't really subtract any points from the score for that because it seems to be a problem that many or all freeware extractors share.
   
   The animated character cavorting whenever the program is active is really annoying, though, and something the other free alternatives don't force on you. I did take off for this.
3. 
   tickleonthetum

   Reviewing 7.0 Beta 1 (Aug 2, 2007)

   This _was_ a great free program. I like the fact that when you extract files you can tell it to only overwrite existings ones if those from the archive are newer, this makes updating really easy.
   
   However it has now become adware, as of 28th Feb it began downloading banner ads to display in all different places within the program. As I, like many people, have a fixed bandwidth allocation per month I am not going to share it with advertisers!
   
   I've taken this app of my system now but will miss it dearly!
4. 
   horsecharles

   Reviewing 7.0 Beta 1 (Aug 1, 2007)

   Yes, yet another extract utility--BUT: it's interesting enough to try-- i recommend everyone visit the homepage... don't worry about the huge login box-- access is not restricted.
   
   The pages do load a wee bit slower than normal, though.
   
   For instance, i like what they did re Speed Extraction... fits my needs to a tee.
   
   I'm giving it a shot.....
5. 
   Todd 13

   Reviewing 6.32 (Aug 22, 2006)

   Hmm, I've used this for about a week now, and I was about to give it 5 stars...but yesterday I encountered a rar file that kept giving me CRC errors. I downloaded the file twice, deleting the first one, but still had the same problem. I decided to try using Winrar to extract it, and it worked. No CRC error. This may be an isolated case, but for now I am going back to Winrar. Just FYI. 3/5 for possible unreliability.

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