IZArc2Go V4.1.2    Suggested by french - Updated by infimum on 1 Jul 2010 12MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (1094) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (11) - Post comment - Permalink

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 Brett: Great archiver. I've been using it for quite some time. Glad they finally made it portable. You can decrease size by deleting language translations. I deleted all but English and reduced size to about 5.6 MB [2007-04-23 18:49]

 a: Awesome tool, 7zip sometimes fails extraction of some files, thats where izarc came in, extracted a rar file just fine. [2007-06-04 18:20]

 Exlinko: Attention:
IZArc does NOT write RAR files, it just extracts RAR. [2007-10-14 09:06]

 Thomas: Please update the installation instructions above - there is now a version that's portable "out of the box": IZArc2Go, version 3.81 Build 1550.
http://www.izarc.org/download/IZArc2Go_Setup.exe [2008-01-28 01:00]

 Fred: @Exlinko
Thanks for pointing that out. Apparently, the .rar format is proprietary and WinRAR/RAR is the only way to write .rar files, which have become my preferred archive type. [2008-08-11 09:32]

 ArnaudN: As wrote Brett, you can decrease size by deleting translations, but you can "upx" the exe and the dlls too. [2009-12-05 12:12]

 opoel: thanks. I've already used it but the beta version. [2009-12-05 20:17]

 Billy Bob: You don't need to download and unpack with Univesael Extractor - just download the portable version IZArc2Go
http://www.izarc.org/izarc2go.html [2009-12-06 00:55]

 HB: Just a hint: The installer of IZArc2Go does leave an entry into the registry (at least the recent version 4.1), hence not completely stealth. The entry can be found at: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/IZSoftware/IZArc2Go" containing the subentry "Completed". This seems to be only an entry of the exe installation / unpacking process and seems not effect the final portability at all, but I just wanted to let those know who really wish NO registry entry with portable software as I do. So in case you want to avoid the entry in the future, install / unpack IZArc2Go once, then delete the registry entry, next delete the original launcher exe file and only keep the unpacked folder for all future uses. Just backup a copy of the folder and keep it for further future uses (eventually zipped). [2010-05-25 03:28]

 Onesimus Prime: I just "UniExtracted" 4.1 and saw a folder called OpenCandy (called spyware by some). FYI, YMMV, and any other acronyms that may apply... [2010-06-18 02:04]

 fawm: OpenCandy crapware... [2010-07-06 15:04]

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