The current release of WinZip contains WinZip Self-Extractor Personal Edition, a subset of WinZip Self-Extractor 4.0. WinZip Self-Extractor 4.0 is a companion product to WinZip and is separately licensed. This dialog box makes it easy for the user to change the 'Unzip To' folder and other options before extracting the files. When a self-extracting Zip file created by WinZip Self-Extractor is run, a dialog box is displayed.Any folder information in the Zip file is automatically restored, including empty folders.Allow the receiver to use a familiar Windows interface to extract (unzip) files, without owning or knowing how to use a separate unzip utility, making them ideal for inexperienced users.Can contain multiple compressed files, minimizing download time and ensuring that important files do not become separated from the rest of the package.(Note: Windows Vista icon support available in WinZip 3.1 or later) Designate custom high resolution icons for your Zip file (Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista).

(Note: LZMA, Jpeg and WavPack available in WinZip Self-Extractor 4.0 only) Create smaller files with LZMA, JPEG, PPMd, WavPack and Enhanced Deflate compressed Zip files.

(Note: Available in WinZip Self-Extractor 3 or later)

Include sensitive information protected with 128- and 256-bit AES encryption.

Provide easy distribution of one or more compressed files.

(Note: Available in WinZip Self-Extractor 2.2 or later)

Optionally run a 'setup' or 'installation' program, which may be included by the developer when the files are decompressed.

Self-extracting Zip files are ideal for electronic file distribution because they: What are the Advantages to Self-Extracting Zip Files? Users can run (execute) a self-extracting Zip file just as they run any other program: just double click on the. A self-extracting Zip file is an executable file (.exe) that contains a Zip file and a small program to extract (unzip) the contents of the Zip file.

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