Zipeg Editor's Review Zipeg is a free tool that allows you to view the contents of archives, as well as providing support for unarchiving. Unlike other programs, this tool is very useful, because most of the Mac applications that have unarchiving functionality can't display the content of the archives. Free Download Zipeg for Mac - A slick, smooth-running and practical application capable to display the contents of various archives and extract onl. From Zipeg’s main window you can quickly and easily open and unpack multi-part password protected archives and set the output destination folder.

• Size 1.62 MB • License Freeware • OS Windows • Price $0.00 • Developer • Updated 14 Dec 2015 • Downloads 959 (1 last week) • View ' universal rar, zip file opener' Overview WinRAR is a popular program indeed, but that doesn’t mean alternatives with fewer features aren’t preferred; this is due to the fact that they are simpler and the users aren’t bombed with loads of tools and features they don’t need. Zipeg is a freeware that can open a wide variety of archives and has enough features to satisfy the average user, like password decryption, fast thumbnail preview of images on mouse hover as well as joining of multipart ZIP and RAR files. Installation Once you launch the installer a window will open with the Terms of Service. Accept them to continue and then watch a progress bar start filling up. Microsoft word mac 2011 free trial. After a few seconds the installation will have finished and the main program will open. The setup package is clean from malware and doesn’t install any additional 3 rd party software either.

Supported operating systems are Windows XP, Vista and 7, but there is a version available for Mac OS X as well. Interface When you open Zipeg for the first time you will be prompted to choose which file types you want to associate with it.

After doing so you can see the program’s main interface, which isn’t very complex since it only has a few menu bar items (File, Actions, Tools, Help) and buttons (Open, Extract, Preview, Options). Below the toolbar is the address of the folder you want to extract the open archive, which has its contents displayed on the center part of the window. Hovering your mouse over an image will display a few properties of the file along with its thumbnail.

Pros Zipeg can open the following files types:.zip,.7z,.rar,.bz2,.gz,.tgz,.tar,.arj,.lzh,.z,.cab,.chm,.cpio,.ear,.war,.cbr and.cbz. As you can see it has a rich list of file type support. It has an auto-detect feature that uses the correct character encoding for filenames, meaning that even if you see gibberish when using other programs you won’t have a problem here. If the auto-detect feature fails, you can manually set the character encoding. If a ZIP/RAR archive is password-protected, Zipeg will not find the password but will let you enter it if you know it.