Bandizip

I am Baas · **Joined:** Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:51 am **Posts:** 2586

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A lightweight and Fast archiving software. Works with WinZip, 7-Zip, WinRAR and other archive formats.

http://www.bandicam.com/bandizip/

Download portable version @ http://www.bandicam.com/bandizip/downlo ... ble-en.zip

Not portable. Writes settings to the registry.

Edit: Retested V2.1.0.1 build 7558
Settings: Application folder
Tested: Portable

I am Baas · **Joined:** Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:51 am **Posts:** 2586

Bandizip V2.01 (2012/02/23):

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•Support multi-threaded and multi-core processors (6 times faster)
•Create ZIPX, TAR, and TGZ archives
•Unpack ACE, TXZ, TLZ, PMA, and J2J archives
•Improved the toolbar design
•Added the Find Files window
•Added Turkish language file
•Improved code page for UNIX and Mac
•Improved SFX compression
•Show the latest archive history
•Show [..] directory in Archive
•Support for Windows 8
•Support LZMA algorithm, UTF-8, and AES encryption in ZipX
•Fixed tons of bugs

Dl Bandizip Portable @ http://www.bandicam.com/bandizip/downlo ... ble-en.zip

Tested: Portable

@Moderator
Please move to the Submission board. Thanks.

outskirter · **Joined:** Wed Dec 07, 2011 7:56 pm **Posts:** 5

I've just tried the portable version. It lives up to its name -- it's really fast and easy to use, moreover, no entries are made in the registry unless associations are used.

Also, unlike 7-Zip, the option to select a working folder actually works! 7-Zip offers that option too, but ignores it (as mentioned in several 7-Zip forum posts), so in Windows 7, 7-Zip creates temporary folders under AppData\Local, and often doesn't delete them afterwards. I watched closely as I opened some archived files in Bandizip. The temporary folders appeared in my selected working folder, and as soon as I closed the files, the folders were automatically deleted, exactly as they should have been. So far I haven't run into any problems with this app.

The version shown in my copy is 2.01 build 7558.

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3726

@I am Baas, probably best to update the original post too. Thanks.

Tested: Portable

lautrepay · **Joined:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:31 am **Posts:** 646

As I said before, a very interesting app. Lightweight, fast and natively portable now. Thanks, Baas!
I just want to add that if you uniextract the normal installer and edit the config.ini changing the line

Code:

is_portable =0

to

Code:

is_portable =1

you'll get a more powerful portable package and with the 32-bit/64-bit combo.

Aditionally, you can use another language file among the availables modifying this line:

Code:

second_lang_file = english

Note: I'm not able right now to test this method for stealhtness.

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3726

lautrepay wrote:

As I said before, a very interesting app. Lightweight, fast and natively portable now. Thanks, Baas!
I just want to add that if you uniextract the normal installer and edit the config.ini changing the line

Code:

is_portable =0

to

Code:

is_portable =1

you'll get a more powerful portable package and with the 32-bit/64-bit combo.

Aditionally, you can use another language file among the availables modifying this line:

Code:

second_lang_file = english

Note: I'm not able right now to test this method for stealhtness.

I tried to test but I can't seem to UniExtract it.

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3726

So I installed it and copied the folder Bandizip from %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data (on Windows XP) to a USB drive and then unistalled it. From there I changed the config.ini data and it was Portable. Why is the Portable version so restricted?

lautrepay · **Joined:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:31 am **Posts:** 646

guinness wrote:

I tried to test but I can't seem to UniExtract it.

Ups, sorry, guinness: extract with 7zip not with Uniextract.

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3726

lautrepay wrote:

guinness wrote:

I tried to test but I can't seem to UniExtract it.

Ups, sorry, guinness: extract with 7zip not with Uniextract.

No problem, one reason why UniExtract should be updated :mrgreen:

Tested: Portable

lautrepay · **Joined:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:31 am **Posts:** 646

Thanks for testing, guinness!

guinness wrote:

Why is the Portable version so restricted?

Do you think the publisher want the users to run the installer for whatever reason?

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3726

No idea, from reading the forum the impression I get is they don't see Portable software as being a popular thing.

I am Baas · **Joined:** Thu Aug 07, 2008 4:51 am **Posts:** 2586

guinness wrote:

No idea, from reading the forum the impression I get is they don't see Portable software as being a popular thing.

I think it's more an issue of resources than anything else. Bandicam is their primary product.

lautrepay · **Joined:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:31 am **Posts:** 646

Updated to v.2.03.

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Support delta, deflate algorithm of 7z format
Support RTL (Right to Left Text) language
Improved extracting speed when unpacking small files
Improved SFX (Self-extracting archive) file processing
Fixed many bugs

I hate to discard an open source and well established program in favour of a closed source one, but it is what I did with 7-Zip and Bandizip.
I've found the latter a lot much faster than 7-Zip, mainly when extracting, and overall I am very pleased with it, and with the fact that is natively portable.
At any time, if no one does before, I will add it. If it continues on this path, will certainly be a permanent Popular title.

Midas · **Posted:** Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:54 am

lautrepay wrote:

[...] I've found the latter a lot much faster than 7-Zip, mainly when extracting, and overall I am very pleased with it, and with the fact that is natively portable. [...].

Have you seen this?

http://www.freewaregenius.com/ wrote:

The answer to the question "which compression program is best" depends on what you care about (see the section below). However, if I must give a recommendation I will say that my personal choice would be HaoZip, 7Zip, (tied for first place), and then Peazip. Here’s a comparison table for the three: [...]

http://www.freewaregenius.com/2012/03/05/the-best-free-compression-zip-program-a-comparison/

outskirter · **Joined:** Wed Dec 07, 2011 7:56 pm **Posts:** 5

Please note that even though Bandizip writes its settings to its own app folder, version 2.01 build 7558 managed to add a whole bunch of compression formats to my registry automatically on first run, without actually associating them, even though I had not used Bandizip's associations option at all. Some of the formats were unfamiliar to me. Their extensions appeared right at the top of HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes, and they also appeared under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. A few already existed as Windows file types (.ISO, .CAB, etc.), but most of them were new, and had no data in the subkeys.

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