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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
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.
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
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
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?
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.
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: [...]
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.