ZipItFree

ZipItFree is an excellent little compression program that is functional, easy to use, and stress-free. You can install it in minutes with the very simple and easy to use installation program that comes with it. Once it's installed, it integrates fully with your Windows system. You can open the program and add files through the interface, or you can right-click on a bunch of files in Windows and select to zip them. Either way, the program is elementary to use.

If you choose to go through the full program, you'll notice that the ZipItFree interface itself isn't the most modern or impressive. While that brings the program down slightly, it's clear that the developers chose to spend time developing the compression algorithm instead of making it visually fancy. I think that's a fair trade-off. Creating files through the Windows menus does mostly let you avoid this ugliness.

The developers created a method called the Black Hole method of creating zip files. This allows for very high compression ratios, even better than WinZip or WinRAR. Additionally, the Black Hole method allows for the file to be decompressed in a concise amount of time. Because of this, the program is very fast and efficient to use.

If you're worried about security ZipItFree uses the ZipV2 encryption algorithm, which is the most secure method for archiving. This makes it absolutely sure that nobody who you don't want to see the contents of your archives will be able to see them!

Additionally, it lets you add comments to your archives so you or your friends would be able to quickly see what each archive contains without having to spend the time to decompress each individual archive!

As its name implies, ZipItFree is absolutely free. It does require Windows 7 or higher to run. It's a great program to check out that is truly worthwhile.

ZipItFree is a speedy and efficient easy to use program.