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License:
Free
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Downloads:
49,331
- Requirements:
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
April 19, 2006
Publisher's description of TUGZip
From Christian Kindahl:TUGZip is a powerful award-winning freeware archiving utility for Windows that provides support for a wide range of compressed, encoded and disc-image files, as well as very powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration. It supports ZIP, 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, BH, BZ2, CAB, CPIO, DEB, GCA, GZ, IMP, JAR, LHA (LZH), LIB, RAR, RPM, SQX, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TAZ, YZ1, and ZOO archives.
Editor's review of TUGZip
5.0 stars
This top-notch archiving tool is impressive from start to finish, and power users will love its range of features and flexibility.
TUGZip starts off with several installation options that let users select one of three views, associate numerous compressed file types with the program, and add context menu shortcuts for easy archiving. Each is briefly but thoroughly explained, and the first two can be easily changed after installation. This easy customization made a good first impression, and that didn't change when we tested its archiving capabilities. The primary difference between the three views, Classic, Explorer, and Combined, is that the latter two show Explorer-style file trees in a multipaned window. The colorful toolbar is a constant in each view and consists of easy-to-understand tooltip-aided icons.
It doesn't take more than a few clicks to open, create, or add to archives. We were impressed by the ease of choosing compression level, adding a password, and setting other archive options. An archive repair tool, archive file type converter, and other tools are welcome extras. The Help file is comprehensive and goes above and beyond explaining the features to advising on how best to use the program.
TUGZip covers the major archive file types, and brings much more than to the table than just the ability to compress files. Novice users can use this program's basic archiving features with ease, but intermediate to advanced users will be able to reap the most benefits from this excellent freeware tool.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 17 votes
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7 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Version: TUGZip 3.4
"Free and supports plenty of archive types and can use scripts"
Pros: This software is completly free (even for companies), you can't loose a peny with trying. With the multi-language support you can get all the benefits of this archiver (however, i miss localized helps) and by searching the forum, you may also can get some help and very good tips from advance program users, too.
The used - checked the maximum - ZIP compression algoritm is very good with very large files, however, i'm not sure the other types are good or not (fe. ACE, RAR and 7-zip).
You can set up working/application directory which can buy you the so precious time :). By discovering menu items you'll see that it can encrypt files up to 256-bit (AES), do batch-compressing/uncompressing, repair damaged files (i'm not sure how well this works) and create special - javascript-like - script files which you can attach to your schedulded jobs. Useing these scripts with BAT(ch) files you'll get a powerfull archiver utility to create your backups.
The SFX createing support is built-in so nothing will stop you from createing your own executables.
With separate downloads you can create ACE and RAR files for free (however, sometimes these aren't working correctly...).
Cons: It's annoying when you met with bugs and, unfortunetly, TZ contains some. The help's script part isn't very well documented and because of this, you can miss a lot of very good possibility.
The compression speed seems to be slower than other archivers.
Createing SFX exe will create another arcive file which won't be deleted.
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Version: TUGZip 3.4
Pros: Easy to install and uninstall. Very stable and excellent for older systems like Windows 98 SE. Works with 29 file formats. Because Quick Zip crashes Windows 98 SE when shut down, I think TUGZip is the best choice. I am very satisfied with TUGZip.
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Version: TUGZip 3.4
"Excellent Software and Free!"
Pros: What a great find. I reinstalled Windows 2000 on a couple of older computers and I really dislike WinZip. This program is fast, simple and handles so many different types of archives, even ISO. Highly recommended!
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: TUGZip 3.4
Pros: I can't imagine why people still pay for things like WinZip when such excellent free archivers like TugZip are available! TugZip handles every archive format I've ever needed. It's fast, easy, and reliable. The other reviews here were obviously based on earlier versions---so to bring them up to date: (1.) I've used TZ 3.4.0 extensively and found no bugs at all (remarkable for ANY program). (2) TZ does indeed include RAR compression and extraction. (3) If TZ looked "like a Win 3.1 program" at one time, it doesn't anymore. A real winner!
Cons: None I've been able to find!
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: TUGZip 3.4
"Opens anything and everything you encounter"
Pros: Opens anything.
Cons: It cannot open cans of beans.
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