Peazip is an open source utility that will allow you to do all your zipping and unzipping of your files with ease. Besides zip format tar, tar.gz, 7z, PEA, ARc is also supported. For decompression some other file popular file formats like rar are supported. Creating a Compressed Archive – Adding Files And Folders in Peazip. PeaZip is a free file archiver utility and rar extractor for Windows and Linux, work with 200+ archive types and variants (7z, ace, arc, bz2, cab, gz, iso, paq, pea, rar, tar, wim, zip, zipx.), handle spanned archives (001, r01, z01.) and support multiple archive encryption standards. PeaZip is a free tool for creating and opening ZIP files quickly and easily. PeaZip can read RAR files, but it cannot write them, the one missing archive format we wish PeaZip could support. PeaZip is an open source file and archive manager. It's freeware and free of charge for any use. PeaZip can extract most of archive formats both from Windows and Unix worlds, ranging from mainstream 7Z, RAR, TAR and ZIP to experimental ones like PAQ/LPAQ family, currently the most powerful compressor available. PeaZip 7.9.0 is ready for download on GitHub This release improves managing temporary files, enhances usability allowing to customize items spacing and zooming for the file manager, icons and tabs, introduces PEA 1.00, and improves ZPAQ support automatically removing extra nesting levels on extraction.
For submission of files to various agencies / entities, you may need to encrypt and password protect a file before submission. Peazip is a free utility that may be used for this purpose. Peazip may be downloaded from http://www.peazip.org/. This document covers the Windows version.
1) Double click the Peazip shortcut on the desktop.
2) You will see the following dialog box:
3) Browse to the file that you want to ZIP.
4) Right click on the file you want to Zip and the following options appear:
1) Click on ADD and the following screen will appear:
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1) Check the desired Encryption Algorithm.
1) Click on the ARCHIVE TAB again to get back to this screen:
1) Click on the LOCK next to the PASSWORD IS NOT SET (right below Output). You’ll see the following Password entry screen pop up:
1) Enter the password and enter it again to confirm password. Leave everything else alone.
2) Click OK to get out of the PASSWORD entry dialog box.
3) Click OK and you’ll see a new ZIP file saved…usually in the same location where the file you want to ZIP is located.
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Last updated on October 6th, 2020
PeaZip is free file archiver utility, based on Open Source technologies of 7-Zip, p7zip, Brotli, FreeArc, PAQ, Zstandard, and PEA projects.
Cross-platform, full-featured but user-friendly alternative to WinRar, WinZip and similar general purpose archive manager applications, open and extract 200+ archive formats: 001, 7Z, ACE(*), ARC, ARJ, BR, BZ2, CAB, DMG, GZ, ISO, LHA, PAQ, PEA, RAR(**), TAR, UDF, WIM, XZ, ZIP, ZIPX, ZST - view full list of supported archive file formats for archiving and for extraction.
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This software is released under Open Source LGPLv3 license, free for any use (private and professional), all PeaZip packages are secure downloads and do not contain advertising or harmful software.
Moreover portable packages, for Linux and Windows, does not need installation: simply extract and use the application.