Reviews of ZipGenius

1. 
   uzi

   Reviewing 6.3.2.3000 (Aug 19, 2011)

   While at home I use IZArc, I tried to install ZipGenius at work because it looked visually nicer than IZarc. Yet, I found that it has bugs and limitations that make it inferior to IZArc. I thus switched to IZArc also at work. Both are freeware.
   Lack of complete Support for Unicode is one of the major problems of this software.
2. 
   dcs1e

   Reviewing 6.3.0.2400 (Jan 23, 2010)

   I have used ZipGenius for about 4 years and never looked back It is a great,free utility. It can compress and unzip almost any archive format.
   
   After comparing many different free and commercial zip utilities, one feature stood out. I really appreciate the ability to automatically scan downloaded files with your antivirus software before committing to unzip and extract them. Users of FileForum might find this feature particularly useful -- you can be exposed to a lot of malware when trying free software.
3. 
   MJR

   Reviewing 6.1.0.1010 (Jul 25, 2009)

   Great program love the self extracting zip files. Win Zip doesn't have it.
4. 
   bobad

   Reviewing 6.1.0.1002 (Jul 13, 2009)

   I find nothing special about this archiver. 7-Zip and IZArc blow it out of the water. It's huge, (18mb compared to 3mb for 7-Zip) It doesn't unarchive ISO or IMG files, it's not really portable. I do like the Explorer extensions, but that's about all.
5. 
   terracesider

   Reviewing 6.0.3.1150 (Dec 28, 2007)

   I discovered ZipGenius on File Forum when looking for a replacement for WinZip. That was in about 2005. Going into 2008, this is still a great free program.

Discuss ZipGenius

1. Apr 9, 2011 - 10:02 AM
   murraycp

   "You can give better protection to your archives using encryption instead of the standard zip password" is a bit deceptive, as "the standard zip password" uses fairly sturdy encryption - the statement seems to imply that regular zip does not use encryption.