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SFXMaker v1.2.1

Andrew Lee on 12 Feb 2013
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by guinness

SFXMaker is an automation tool for unattended software installations, also known as switchless installers or silent installs. This program especially ideal for those who use nLite, as it adds the option of creating an installer for nLite in the GUI.

There are also more recent versions of SFXMaker, but they require administator rights.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SFXMaker.exe.
What's new?
  • Removed nConvert because it was replaced with an internal icon conversion engine
  • Fixed bug when changing icon with an *.ico file
  • Fixed small bugs
  • Updated plugins
  • Added Dutch, Turkish, Simplified Chinese and Farsi
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SYSTEM on 2011-01-15 18:01

SFXMaker 1.2.1 Final was released on January 6. The previous version was RC1.

I have updated the entry. Andrew, please bump it.

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Other than that, the author has bad news. :(

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/119394-sfxmaker-121-final-a-switchless-installer-maker/

Quote:

"Now comes the part i hate the most. About the future of this project. Pretty cloudy, i may say. Some points :
- This is the last version written in AutoIT (i may change my mind if someone will give me a good reason to continue with au3);
- I would really like to continue this project, but after a while coding the same thing becomes boring. I feel like i'm developing an application just for me, with no actual users out there. If someone sees this message and is considering that my SFXMaker development should continue, send me feedback (via e-mail most probably, forums are down), telling me why he does so.
- If, by any chance, this project will continue, i would like to set up a mini dev-team, to work for a brand new SFXMakert, written maybe in C/C++. Dunno."

SYSTEM on 2011-12-04 07:39

I have good news: the author continues development of SFXMaker and just released SFXMaker 1.3.0 Beta yesterday! :)

http://www.isoft-online.com/

SYSTEM on 2012-02-05 09:28

1.3.0 RC1 up.

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Universal Extractor 2 v2.0.0 RC 3

freakazoid on 22 Nov 2020
  • 103MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 24 Aug 2020
  • Suggested by Mikhoul

Universal Extractor 2 is an easy-to-use extraction program that works on a long list of file types including standard compression formats like ZIP, RAR and 7Z files, as well as program installers, disk images, audio/video and many more. The program also includes an "scan" option to view available data on a setup file, integrated updater, improved status box, new detection methods for files, batch extraction, plugin support and more.

The program is an unofficial fork of Universal Extractor.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? No. Included libraries may write to the registry.
Unicode support: Yes
License: GNU GPLv2
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. Launch UniExtract.exe

Optionally, in the setup wizard:
  • In the Context Menu Entries screen, click Next to skip (this feature is not portable)
  • In the Support for Video Files screen, click Download to enable decompression of a long list of audio and video formats.
Similar/alternative apps: Universal Extractor
What's new? See:
https://github.com/Bioruebe/UniExtract2/releases
Latest comments
webfork on 2017-04-29 06:35

I've been using this frequently as a replacement for the original Universal Extractor and it's so far saved me a lot of time and energy.

SleepingWolf on 2020-02-03 18:39

The download found on the github site is currently missing an .exe (or any other executable) file.

thepiney on 2020-02-04 14:27

I'm guessing you downloaded the source code zip file. If you click on the download link and go to the bottom of RC2 area, just above 2.0.0 RC1 you'll see "Assets", click on that and then the top download "UniExtractRC2.zip".

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ArcThemALL! v5.1

webfork on 13 May 2016
  • 2MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Lupo73

ArcThemALL! is a multi-compressor of files and folders for both normal and advanced users. It supports compression with UPX, ZIP and 7Z formats, includes an intelligent UPX compression mode, supports self-extracting archive creation, archives encryption/decryption, three external freeware compressors, the extraction of a long list of formats (7Z, APM, ARJ, BZIP2, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, FAT, GZIP, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, LZMA2, MBR, MSI, MSLZ, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, SFX, TAR, UDF, UPX, VHD, WIM, XAR, XZ, Z, ZIP) and much more.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: GPL
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch ArcThemALL!.exe.
What's new? Version 5.1 [26-10-2013]
- added support to generate a Log file
- updated UPX v3.91
- fixed integration in Context menu and SendTo menu
- fixed some minor bugs
Latest comments
Lupo73 on 2011-11-13 21:05

It is available on main webpage.. if instead you open the sourceforge page, click "ArcThemALL! Web Page..." link in Description to move to main webpage..

jrgermann on 2011-11-14 17:53

Thanks, Lupo73, for that info. Looks like the download link should point to the Sourceforge link that comes from the website page.

__philippe on 2017-03-26 23:45

ArcThemALL sorely lacks a critical "List" option to examine an archive contents BEFORE launching
any decompression operation.

Voted Down.

Brickbats accepted/Vote reverted in case this option were demonstrated to be available after all...;-)

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Bandizip Standard Edition v7.32 Adware

Andrew Lee on 15 Sep 2023
  • 4MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 14 Sep 2023
  • Suggested by I am Baas

Bandizip is an archive tool that supports a customisable interface, the searching of archives by file name, file splitting, password protection, self-extracting archives and varying levels of compression. It supports the creation and extraction of most common compression formats, as well as modern formats ZIPX and 7Z.

The program's "High Speed Archiving" function will allow you to compress or bypass the files its own algorithm on multimedia files (AVI, WMV, MP3...) or archive files (ZIP, RAR, 7Z...) that won't benefit from additional compression. This can increase archiving speed dramatically. Extract formats supported include 7Z, ZIPX, RAR, ALZ, EGG, TAR, BH, LZH, BZ2, ISO, CAB, WIM, XZ, ARJ, ZIP, Z and more.

Category:
Runs on:Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware/Liteware
How to extract: Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Bandizip32.exe or Bandizip64.exe.

Optionally, delete unnecessary language files.
Similar/alternative apps: 7-Zip, PeaZip, IZArc
What's new? See: https://www.bandisoft.com/bandizip/history/
Latest comments
FireRabbit on 2021-10-08 14:51

I didn't realize Bandizip was here or I'd have commented sooner. I LOVE Bandizip it's the only archive program that handles Zpaq files well. When you have a big zpaq update you can Ctrl+F in the archive and filter and search the entire backup history of the Zpaq.

TL/DL
Best GUI for Zpaq and Zpaq is magic.

Ennovy on 2022-07-05 11:08

Version 7.26 is released today

Pendrive on 2023-09-14 11:10

v7.32

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UPX Tool v1.0.3 (unofficial 1.1.1)

webfork on 23 Feb 2016
  • 274KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by Gary

UPX is a tool that can reduce the size of system files (EXE and DLL) significantly. No additional software is required after compression and some programs will even run faster due to fewer read operations.

UPX Tool is a GUI wrapper for UPX, able to both compress and decompress.

There is an unofficial update created by Lupo PenSuite (UPX Tool+ 1.1.1) that can be download here. The main advantage of this update is functionality with UPX 3.0 (improved compression via LZMA).

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware/Open Source
How to extract:
  1. Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice
  2. The version of UPX included in bin\upx.exe is not the latest version, so you may wish to replace it with the latest version from the UPX website
  3. Launch UPXTool.exe

    Note: I have included a direct download of UPX Tool packaged with the latest version of UPX. Just click on the "download here" link above.
Similar/alternative apps: PortableApps AppCompactor
Latest comments
Lupo73 on 2010-02-11 11:32

The link to UPX Tool+ is fixed..

carbonize on 2010-02-11 15:27

Just remember that programs compressed using UPX will get reported as a virus by some anti virus software.

Have to love false positives and lazy programmers.

Irgen on 2010-11-20 02:41

ClamWin report "Trojan.Spy-75883 FOUND";Avira report:"TR/PSW.Agent.nup";Please check; and scan with online malware scanner almost report virus

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Simplyzip v1.1b78

billon on 29 Mar 2017

Simplyzip is a multi-archiver program that supports numerous formats, including ZIP, ACE, CAB, RAR, TAR, GZIP, LZH, BZ2 etc. It has additional functions such as ACE/ZIP repair tool, file encryption/decryption, multi-ZIP spanning etc.

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch SimplyZip.exe
Latest comments
Onesimus Prime on 2009-02-24 20:26

There is now a "Simplyzip Portable Version" available on his page: http://www.paehl.de/Simplyzip_SFX.exe

Lassar on 2009-03-11 17:17

I tested SimplyZip on www.virustotal.com
It has 34 viruse checkers. Only 2 of them said it was suspicous.

I hate false positives !

__philippe on 2017-03-29 00:24

@Orca
Updated Dirk Paehl Software links

Website
http://www.paehl.de
Liable to induce scarlet color allergy, sensitive souls beware !...;-)

Complete utilities index/TOC
http://www.paehl-info.de

Download link sample
http://www.paehld.de/down/simplyzipse.exe

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nPack v2.0.100.2008

webfork on 1 Oct 2014
  • 99KB (uncompressed)
  • Released on
  • Suggested by AlephX

nPack is a Win32 PE executable file compressor. It supports all types of PE files (EXE, DLL, OCX), and compresses program code, data and resources. However, it does not provide support for decompressing PE files that have already been compressed.

Site offline, linking to archive.org

Category:
Runs on:Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP
Writes settings to: Application folder
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch nPack.exe.
Latest comments
Lyx on 2009-11-21 03:15

Thats because virus-scanners are scamware. They nowadays recognize anything which MAY someway be related to malware (i.e. a trojan hiding itself via executable compression!) as virus. I had that happen recently to me with a business client - we had Imagine (image viewer) running for years, then at some day Avira decided to classify it as a trojan, because.... it was packed with a certain executable compressor.

Virus-scanners nowadays are designed for morons who are unable to make decisions based on information - they are made for clueless people who want to be told if something is "good" or "bad", NOT "perhaps" or "maybe".

Internet Joe on 2009-11-21 20:47

nPack V2.0.100.2008 is unavailable on the original place. Download it here:

http://www.intel-assembler.it/PORTALE/4/npack_2.0.100.zip

Emka on 2013-12-17 19:41

site down

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SpinZip v1.0.5

Checker on 24 May 2015
  • 1MB (uncompressed)
  • Released on 5 Apr 2011
  • Suggested by Checker

SpinZip compresses files in one of three unique ways:

  • User specified size (approximate)
  • Specified number of files per ZIP
  • Automatically-named ZIPs based on filename (file1.txt and file2.txt --> file1.zip and file2.zip)
Also supports passwords, file filter (*.txt, *.doc, etc.), 10 levels of ZIP compression from simple storage to high compression, and available recursive (directories and their sub-directories) archives.

Uses IZARC compression.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7
Writes settings to: Application folder
Stealth: ? Yes. "Check for updates" (DCUpdate file) is not stealth. It writes SpinZip.dcupdateredirect file to user\all\DonationCoder\DcUpdater\RedirectFiles
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SpinZip.exe.
Latest comments
misan on 2014-01-06 10:37

Also not stealth: %TEMP%\$$$$$_SpinZip_temp

See Spews

Midas on 2014-01-06 13:38

Please see http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=2566#comment25571 (as comments engine breaks the anchor from the link, you'll have to copy and paste it) ...

Checker on 2014-01-06 18:15

@ misan: If you klick on the little "?"-icon behind "Stealth" ...

What makes an application "stealth"?

For the purpose for this website, "stealth" means when an application is launched, used and terminated properly, it does not leave behind any entries in the registry or filesystem. Certain exceptions are permitted. For example, registry entries that are created/updated by Windows for the application (eg. MRU entries for dialog boxes, DirectX entries for DirectX-based apps), or temp files created in the official "Temp" folders are not taken into consideration. Note: "Stealth" does not mean non-traceability! In fact, it is quite unlikely you can hide your activities on a Windows machine from a capable system administrator.

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PIM Archiver v2.90

I am Baas on 28 Dec 2015

PIM is a file compression utility that targets a new "PIM" archive format that features high performance executable and image compression. It also supports the extraction for various archive formats, including ZIP, JAR, PK3, PK4, QUAKE PAK and QUAD.

Category:
Runs on:WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8
Writes settings to: None
Stealth: ? Yes
Unicode support: No
License: Freeware
How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch pim.exe.
Latest comments
Queue on 2008-03-20 01:01

The main reason you wouldn't use --lzma with UPX is for speed; NRV is faster. Although both tend to be so fast it doesn't matter, the size difference also usually doesn't matter.

Technomancer on 2009-02-11 07:11

I quite like its simplicity though it could do with some sort of progress meter.

donald on 2010-06-11 06:25

I could not download this from the homepage, I could not even find a valid link there, nor a listing for v2.90

I was always redirected to the homepage, it may be necessary to join the forum to download.

I found something interesting though and the link is below.

http://www.sac.sk/files.php?d=7&l=P

This is page P of SAC.

Here is the homepage http://www.sac.sk/

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