WinZip

Powerful, fast, easy-to-use Zip utility with AES encryption, Wizard and Classic interfaces, tight integration with Windows, email support, Explorer-style view and more. Available in Standard or Pro, offering image viewer and data backup automation.

7-Zip

I think 7-zip is quite fast. I like that is freeware, and simple too, nevertheless maybe there is some details I would like to change in the User Interface (icons above all, but also in the location of some options...). Download it now from the Internet!

ACDSee Photo Manager

ACDSee 10 is the perfect tool to view, organize and share your images quickly. This great application allows you to drag and drop your files into different predefined categories to create a library, which can then be searched using its new feature of multi-word keywords.

FreeCommander

FreeCommander Version 2007.10a is an alternative to the standard windows file manager. With this program you can perform every action needed to manage your data. It´s portable, so you can take it, just copying the installation directory on a CD, Pen Drive or a floppy disk. FreeCommander Version 2007.10a is multilingual, supports 10 languages.

ALZip

A clean and nice interface and pretty icons with the cute figure of an egg with big eyes and feet are the first things you'll see after installation. This mighty program handles 36 archive and compression formats. It's able to create self-extracting archives and spanned archives over 2600 volumes. Now it also opens ISO and BIN formats.

XAMPP

XAMPP is a suite of server programs for windows focused on developing open source web applications. It includes the latest stable versions available for Apache, MySQL, PHP and FileZilla, amongst others. It comes with a few optimization and security pieces of advice, and a simple application to install and manage each of the services.

ZipGenius

ZipGenius 6 is a very useful compress/uncompress tool for Windows and Linus. As zip/unzip tool, is a very powerful utility: it supports many compression formats (more than 20 compressed archive formats), and it shows all the compressed archive information. For compressed files, it offers the possibility of extracting one by one or all the files to a given folder, reload the list, etc.

WinZip Self-Extractor

Moreover this mode of file distribution allows the end user to decompress these files by simple double clicking without the help of any other unzip tool or knowledge of using unzip tool. With AES encryption support you can create self extracting files in two different strengths 128-bit AES and 256-bit AES.

Filzip

Filzip is a FREE file compression utility for Windows. You can use it to compress your book collection in an single package or to extract the archives you download from the web. Filezip supports opening and extracting archives of the following formats: ZIP, BH, CAB, JAR, LHA,TAR, GZIP, ACE, ARC, ARJ, RAR, ZOO, UUE and XXE. And it can create ZIP, BH, CAB, JAR, LHA,TAR and GZIP archives.

Sun Download Manager (web)

Sun Download Manager is a download managing application that works without the need of keeping runing the installed web browser while downloading the desired files, and no matter which browser. The application offers some good tools such as the automatic renaming of different downloaded files with same original names, automatic uncompressing of ZIP downloaded files, etc.

UltimateZip

UltimateZip is a commercial file compression utility. You can use it to compress all your documents in a single package in order to save disk space or to hide your sensitive information from prying eyes, protecting it with a password. Other things you can do with this powerful program are automating the process of backing up your important data and creating self extracting files.

ZIP Reader

It is simply a Zip reader as its name said. It can only uncompress the zipped files. You can not use this utility to compress your favorite and important files. But it still be very useful, because you can uncompress any compressed file just by double click on it, therefore it will save your lots of time if you regularly uncompress a large number of files.

BitZipper

Want a ZIP utility that matches your level of experience? The intuitive interfaces are easy to use and designed for fast results. BitZipper's integral support for almost all file types means that this one tool will open most compressed files.

ZipItFree

ZipItFree is a free file compression utility. With it you can open, extract and create compressed files, including ZIP, RAR and ACE. It’s a basic free alternative to WinZip, WinRAR and PowerArchiver. You can use it, for instance, to compress your birthday photos in a single file or to open the book collection you bought online.

CAM UnZip

Unzipping (and zipping) made easy... and free... Finally!

FileASSASSIN

FileASSASSIN is an application that can permanently delete any kind of locked files that are on your PC. It doesn't matter if the files are from a malware infection or just any particular file that won't delete, it can eliminate it. The software uses state-of-the-art programming techniques to unload modules, close remote handles, and terminate processes to take away the particular locked file.

UnZip Me

This is a very simple utility to extract your compressed files in ZIP format. It's very easy to use, with an intuitive and clean interface. With this rudimentary program you can't open your compressed files with double click, you can't extract files with a right click from Windows Explorer and of course you can't compress files. The download is about 1 MB. At least it is freeware.

The Unzip Wizard

This is a FREE file compression utility. You can use it to unzip your compressed pictures. Of course, you first need an utility to compress them. Unfortunately, this Wizard needs to learn new magic tricks, because it can´t neither create compressed archives nor extract other file formats apart from ZIP.