Additional WinZip Features

Navigate with Places Bar

WinZip gives you easier access to your most important file locations in many WinZip Classic dialogs. Key dialogs such as New Archive, Open Archive, Add, and Extract contain "places bars" when running under Windows versions that support them. The places bar provides quick access to your top-level locations, usually My Computer, My Network (or Network Places), My Documents, Recent Documents (or History), and the Desktop.

Online Help

WinZip makes it easier than ever for you to find the WinZip information you need by presenting help information using the newer Microsoft "HTML Help" facility. HTML Help has a more attractive appearance and includes many usability improvements.

Miscellaneous Product Information

You can configure WinZip to use NTFS time stamps (vs. DOS time). This allows for greater time stamp granularity/accuracy, and the use of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) helps assure clarity when sharing Zip files outside of your local time zone. This is particularly useful with Zip data backups.
In an effort to improve network security, many administrators block various file extensions. If your administrator has a blanket policy to block .zip extensions, but you want to be able to exchange Zip files with a reliable source, you can now agree on a fictitious alternate extension (e.g., ".abc") and simply associate WinZip with that extension. This will increase the likelihood that you will be able to send and receive Zip files, and WinZip will open them just as it opens any .zip file.
If you need to email your Zip file, WinZip makes it easier with the new "Send To" option available directly from the WinZip File menu.
With WinZip Pro, you can extend the benefit of our new "Send To" feature with the ability to send to a remote FTP server and/or burn directly to CD/DVD.
WinZip can open "skin" files for Microsoft Media Player 7 (.WMZ), Yahoo! Player (.YFS), and WinAmp (.WSZ). Once open, you can use most of the operations available with any Zip file.
WinZip can display Zip file comments of up to 64,000 characters if your system provides the necessary "rich edit" control.
Support for filenames containing multi-byte character set (MBCS) characters used with Asian languages such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean has been improved.
The limit on the number of entries created by the CheckOut feature in the Programs menu has been increased from 50 to 500.
WinZip removes from the list of recently used files any files that no longer exist and were opened from the temporary or Internet files folders. This means that, for example, Zip files opened from your e-mail program no longer appear in your recently used file list after they have been deleted by the e-mail program.
Additional miscellaneous improvements to the WinZip program and help files.

Shared Computer Support

With Fast User Switching, another user can log on and perform other operations (including using WinZip) while a long WinZip operation is being performed.
WinZip's Favorite Zip Folders feature now monitors more folders, including Windows XP's "Shared Documents" folder and its subfolders, making it easier to find Zip files created or stored by other users.

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