AnonyMoose1978 said:
argh...what ever happened to progress?
but thanks...winzip is the way to go.
You expect the non-operating system fluff that Microsoft happens to
shove into their products for marketing leverage to actually support the
functionality provided by full-blown 3rd party software? Sounds more
like you're cheap and wanted to get something for nothing. Windows
includes WordPad, so did that make you abandon whatever you were using
before as your word processor? The NT Backup is a crippled version of
Veritas Backup Exec (sold off to Stomp Inc and now called Backup MyPC).
Defrag is a crippled version of Diskeeper. Disk Cleanup is a crippled
version of Cleansweep. This is news to you, that Microsoft includes
crippled other-vendor software or similar but reduced functionality for
non-operating system *utility* software?
WinZip is shareware and you are expected to pay for it if you continue
to use it. I used to have WinZip but dumped it when I discovered
certain conditions under which I can make it screw up it CRC on the
files it puts into an archive (the CRC is wrong but the file content may
be okay so you extract and ignore the CRC error). It is also much
slower than PKzip, but you have to pay for that software, too. ZipMagic
runs as an installable file system instead of as a separate utility
program but it costs money. WinRAR requires you buy it, too. I've
heard of UltimateZip but haven't used it, and it is free (unless you
want to pay to get the registration code to remove the spam banners).
