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Winzip SelfExtractor

The decision was made to remove the self-extractor tool from the winzip program. This a tool heavily relied upon by myself and others to make software, driver installation and custom file extraction easier. Asking it be added back or add the featu...
Jerry Davis 20 days ago in Improvement 3 Community Voting

Add support for more than 260 characters to Winzip - both create and unzip

Winzip is not able to create or unzip archives with more than 260 characters in the name or in the path. 7Zip is able to do this. Microsoft has enabled 260 character support via this method: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/m...
Guest 5 months ago in Improvement 0 Being explored

Changing my email address

Today one often changes emails in the professional venue as well as the personal one. I've looked everywhere and there is no place to do that. I will have to cancel my subscription as my email address has changed.
Guest 7 months ago in Improvement 1 Being explored

Give me the option of keeping duplicate files in another file instead of deleting.

I am involved in a large legal case and would hate to delete something that is important. At the same time, I am being overrun with duplicate files after years of working on it. I would like the ability to put the duplicate files in another file t...
Guest 7 months ago in New Feature 0 Community Voting

Updating WinZip

When I renew my Microsoft Office 365 each year I simply enter the new 25 digit Product Key whilst logged into Administrator on my PC. PC Users then have access to the Office products. Office updates occur in the background. With other products ...
Guest about 1 year ago in Improvement 1 Future consideration

Use WIndows Explorer type browsing window

I asked for this years ago. Why can't I just browse my computer instead of frequent folders and to look at my one drive, I have to add a special cloud account. ALL my other apps let me browse the computer as well as OneDrive without anything speci...
Guest 9 months ago in Improvement 0 Community Voting

Add an option to reset ignored duplicate files in duplicated file finder

During the cleaning of duplicate files, when the user activates "stop showing selected files for all items in a duplicate folder” and clicks “Run” to re-run the duplicate job for the second time, the duplicate file finder displays a notification i...
Tosan Velor 7 months ago in Improvement 0 Community Voting

Secure Backup needs to allow multiple folders at a time

Hi WinZip Team and Readers, I hope everyone is doing well and having fun adding new features to WinZip. Secure Backup needs to allow selection of multiple folders at a using the Shift key or the Ctrl key. Windows File explorer does this which make...
Craig Forss 3 months ago in Improvement 0 Community Voting

Registgration activation by clicking on activation key in your account

I would like registration immeditate ativation by clicking on the activation key in my account.
Debra Webb 2 months ago in Improvement 4 Being explored

Improve Windows11 file system Explorer R-mouse-click access to WinZip zip and encrypt

Using Windows10, WinZip-25 installed itself so the Windows file system Explorer R-mouse-click on a file raised a "context menu" with "Send To..." pick WinZip for a quick compression ("zip") of the file to a file.zip (default name) with prompt to a...
Guest 5 months ago in Improvement 0 Community Voting