WinZip Self-Extractor is a useful utility program which creates self-extracting Zip files.

These self-extracting Zip files are ideal for electronic file distribution, because they allow the receiver to use a familiar Windows interface to decompress files without a separate unzip utility. Additionally, self-extracting Zip files can optionally run a "setup" or "installation" program, provided by the creator, after the files are decompressed.

WinZip Self-Extractor is a companion product to WinZip and is separately licensed.

Here are some key features of "WinZip Self-Extractor":

Support for Advanced Encryption:
· Create self-extracting Zip files that contain AES, 128- or 256-bit key, encrypted files.

Additional Compression Method Support:
· PPMd and Enhanced Deflate compressed files now supported.

Wizard driven:
· WinZip Self-Extractor is wizard driven, which simplifies the process of building self-extracting Zip files.

Customization:
· Easily create and customize your self-extracting Zip files.

Customize software installations:
· WinZip Self-Extractor can create self-extracting Zip files for software installation that allow you to customize the self-extracting Zip file's icon and dialog box text, as well as open any file using the application associated with that file on the end-user's machine.

Span disks:
· A self-extracting Zip file created by WinZip Self-Extractor can span multiple removable disks.

Invoke from Start/Run command:
· WinZip Self-Extractor can be run from the "Start" menu's "Run" dialog box by simply typing "wzipse32".

Self-extractors for software installation:
· WinZip Self-Extractor can create self-extracting Zip files for software installation that can run standard Microsoft-format .INF files as an alternative to "setup" programs, and can clean up files even if the install process involves a reboot.

Issue optional command after unzip:
· There is no practical limit on the length of the optional command issued by self-extracting Zip files after the unzip operation completes.

International Language Messages:
· Self-extracting Zip files can be created with English or German messages.

Requirements:

· WinZip Self-Extractor does not create Zip files, so you need a utility such as WinZip that creates Zip files.

Limitations:

· 30 days trial.
· Nag Screen

· Support for Jpeg Compression
· Create self-extracting Zip files that contain files compressed with Jpeg compression, delivering up to 25% compression of JPEG images with no loss in quality
· Support for LZMA Compression
· Create self-extracting Zip files that contain files compressed with LZMA compression, delivering powerful compression for many file types
· Support for WavPack Compression
· Create self-extracting Zip files that contain files compressed with WavPack compression, delivering lossless compression of .WAV (audio) files
· Unicode Support
· To ensure international characters are displayed for filenames in a Zip file