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IZArc

Free Windows file compression and archive manager

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IZArc is a file archiver for Windows that handles compression, extraction, encryption, and archive management across more than 40 formats, including ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZIP, and ISO. It runs offline without an account or registration, and integrates with Windows Explorer through context menus and file associations for creating and extracting archives directly from the desktop.

Features include AES-256 encryption with password protection, solid and split archives, disk spanning, self-extracting archive creation, archive repair, format conversion, batch processing, archive testing, and CD/DVD image conversion for formats such as ISO, BIN, MDF, and NRG. Additional capabilities include UU/XX/MIME encoding and decoding, multi-volume archive creation and merging, automatic software installation from archives, a checkout feature for temporary extraction, email archiving, and built-in multi-language support.

IZArc is available for Windows 7 through 11 and is free for personal and commercial use, with no account or registration required.

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