Usama Rehman
TUGZip is a free, but powerful archiving tool that is known n all around the world for having comprehensive support for archiving file formats and very easy to use interface that makes it attractive to both novices and seasoned professionals. One of its main features is the ability to repair damaged ZIP archives with great degree of success, and can also manage CD/DVD backup archives that are commonly called disc images. Supported disc image formats that TUGZip can easily manage are ISO, NRG, BIN, C2D and IMG.
TUGZip is a creation of the single developer Christian Kindahl who has worked on several other products that have found popularity over the internet (most famously open source disc authoring application InfraRecorder). With TUGZip he managed to create a very comprehensive archive compression and backup utility, with support for both basic features that ordinary users will use daily and advanced features that will allow professionals to manage all aspects of their daily job. This includes support for multiple simultaneous archive extractions, external plugins, 6 different encryption algorithms for protection of files, and a fully-featured support for custom scripts that can manage all functions of this app.
Reason why so many novices have adopted TUGZip is not only because its features, but also because of its very streamlined interface. Even the complete novices in the world of computing will have easy time managing dashboard structure of TUGZip, which has interface that very much resembles to Windows Explorer, but with addition of few key components and tools that can make working with compressed archives as easy as possible. The program has many useful features, some of which are:
Supports and read ZIP, 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, BH, BZ2, CAB, CPIO, DEB, GCA, GZ, IMP, JAR, LHA (LZH), LIB, RAR, RPM, SQX, TAR, TGZ, TBZ, TAZ, YZ1 and ZOO archives.
Supports BIN, C2D, IMG, ISO and NRG disc-images.
Support for external plugins.
Windows® shell integration, for example drag & drop, shell context menu and drop handlers.
Can create archives in the following formats: 7-ZIP, BH, BZ2, CAB, JAR, LHA (LZH), SQX, TAR, TGZ, YZ1 and ZIP archives.
Comes with script support, which can be used for creating automatic back-ups.
Basic features like: add, extract, delete, rename, run, view, checkout, install, test, comment, SFX, virus-scanning, disk-spanning and much more.
It can repair corrupted ZIP and SQX archives.
Can extract multiple archives at once using Multi Extract.
Encrypt archives using 6 different algorithms. Blowfish (128-bit), DES (56-bit), Triple DES (168-bit) and Rijndael (128-bit, 192-bit and 256-bit).
Supports the creation of self-extracting archives.
Automatic updates using the "Web Update" function.
