![]() The installer still installed to Windows 98/ME, but these operating systems were no longer officially supported. WinZip 11 added support for creating and extracting WavPack-compressed ZIP archives. WinZip Pro was added in this release, which added automation and task scheduling features. It was the last major release to officially support Windows 98/ME. WinZip 10 added support for creating and extracting PPMd-compressed ZIP archives. It also removed the previous limitations of 65,535 files per ZIP file and maximum file size of 4 gigabytes. WinZip 9.0 added support for AES encryption for ZIP archives, BZip2-compressed ZIP archives (extraction only). ![]() It included extract multiple ZIP archives in explorer, configurable Explorer context menu, creation of split ZIP archives, new Quick Pick Taskbar Tray Icon, resizable dialogs under Windows 98 or higher, extract files from split and spanned ZIP archives in Wizard interface, Windows XP theme support, opening "skin" files for Microsoft Media Player 7 (.WMZ), Yahoo! Player (.YFS), and Winamp (.WSZ), display Zip file comments of up to 64,000 characters, Support for filenames containing multi-byte character set (MBCS) characters, increasing number of entries created by the CheckOut feature in the Programs menu to 500. WinZip 8.1 was the last major release to officially support Windows 95. WinZip Self-Extractor Personal Edition no longer supports creation of 16-bit self-extracted archive. Windows extensions are now 32-bit Explorer Shell extensions only. WinZip 8.0's Wizard interface was extended to allow create and update Zip files from the Wizard, extract and install from MIME and other encoded files, automatic installation of desktop themes and screen savers added Explorer context menu when opening files within archives, inclusion of subfolders when adding or updating archives, "Explorer-style" toolbar buttons, displays a tooltip when a Zip file is selected in Windows Explorer, WinZip context menus displays small icons corresponding to the menu items' toolbar buttons in Under Windows 98 and Windows 2000 install desktop themes and screen savers contained in Zip files new Zip and E-Mail Explorer context menu feature, automatically display the Zip comment, context menu help in WinZip dialogues, viewing multiple files with 1 action. WinZip Self-Extractor Personal Edition now creates Zip files that span multiple removable disks. WinZip 7.0 introduced Microsoft's CAB (cabinet) format, Internet Explorer 4.0-style "one click open" interface, Zip comment, registry-based configuration, ARJ 2.60 long file name support, Explorer-style fonts. WinZip 6.0a features improved Windows 95 drag and drop support. Other enhancements included an improved interface to file viewers, an "Express Setup" option, and better support for virus scanners. WinZip 6.0 added many Windows 95 features, including tight integration with the Windows 95 shell and Explorer-style dialog boxes. WinZip 5.6 added support for the popular Internet file formats TAR, gzip, and Unix compress. WinZip 5.5 added the ability to install, try, and UNINSTALL software distributed in ZIP files. Added support for international characters in archive names and files in archives. Built-in unzipping is used when running DOS virus scanners. Added built-in Actions/Test operation for ZIP files. Added support for Windows-based virus scanners. Note that two advanced features, disk-spanning and encryption, still require PKZIP. WinZip 5.0 added PKZIP-compatible built-in zipping, so PKZIP is not needed for basic archive management. WinZip 4.0 added support for PKZIP 2.0, including built-in ZIP extraction, support for the ARJ file format, new toolbar with descriptive pictorial buttons, added a 3-D look to all dialog boxes. WinZip always uses PKZIP.EXE to modify ZIP files. WinZip 3.2 added Built-in ZIP Extraction so that PKUNZIP is not needed for most ZIP extract operations. WinZip 3.1 added support for Windows 3.1 Drag and Drop Interface, enhanced Extract dialog box with common dialog directory and drive list, Test action for ZIP and LZH files, added file types ZIP, LZH, and ARC to New and Open dialog boxes. WinZip 3.0 added full support for LZH files, including self-extracting LZH files, configurable support for most virus scanners, simplified options to add and extract files in a subdirectory tree. WinZip 2.0 added support for ARC files, support for self-extracting ZIP files (ZIP2EXE), optional interface to Virus Scan software, dialog box to specify paths and filenames of external programs. ![]() WinZip 1.0 was initial version for Windows. Seeing the need for an archive application with a Graphical User Interface, Nico Mak (then employed by Mansfield Software Group, Inc) seized the opportunity and developed the WinZip application for Microsoft Windows. The ZIP file archive format (ZIP) was originally invented for MS-DOS in 1989 by Phil Katz.
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