PowerArchiver has been downloaded by tens of millions of users worldwide. PowerArchiver 2009 offers hundreds of features, yet remains easy to use, small and fast. Novice users will find a familiar interface complete with tutorial and detailed help, while more experienced users can take advantage of full Explorer integration, multiple encryption methods and advanced compression algorithms.

Changelog:

• PACOMP.EXE:
  • New ZIP engine (requires PACLIB.DLL) 
  • support for large ZIP (over 4 GB).
  • support for PPMd, WavPack, BZIP2, LZMA compression methods.
  • support for Unicode archives (both archives and files inside).
  • support for multicore compression (ZIP Deflate and ZIP LZMA).
  • New switches:
    • unicode : parameters and output are in unicode format. 
      (PACOMPU.EXE removed from distribution)
    • 0 : start as low priority process.
    • c  : added new compression methods for ZIP.
    • o : force Unicode saving of filenames.
    • u, h : update and freshen actions for ZIP archives.
       
• PAEXT.EXE
  • New ZIP engine (required PACLIB.DLL) 
  • support for large ZIP (over 4 GB).
  • support for PPMd, WavPack, BZIP2, LZMA decompression.
  • support for decrypting PKAES and WZAES encrypted files.
  • support for Unicode archives (both archives and files inside).
  • New UnRar engine with up to 30% faster uncompression.
     
  • New switches:
  • unicode  : parameters and output are in unicode format, (PAEXTU.EXE removed from distribution)
  • 0 : start as low priority process.
     
• PAENCODE.EXE
• New switches:
• unicode : parameters and output are in unicode format.
  (PAENCODEU.EXE removed from distribution)

Program Information Category: Tools and Utilities Type: Shareware Version: 11.50 beta 3 Size: 8.06MB Works on: Windows Product page: here