

The handy WinZip Classic Favorites button lets you search for ZIP files on your C: drive or external drives. A button lets you toggle to the more advanced WinZip Classic screen, where 10 buttons and six pull-down menus let you open, view, and encrypt ZIP files or view the help contents and tutorials. To get started with the utility, neophytes can use the WinZip wizard for a crystal-clear, screen-by-screen walkthrough of the most common tasks, such as zipping/unzipping files and folders and adding files to a zipped folder. It takes just a few minutes to install WinZip 10 Pro from the CD-ROM.

And while WinZip 10 Pro may cost a little more than its competitors, the features do justify the expense.

It also provides useful if limited CD/DVD-burning features, going well beyond the native compression capabilities found in Windows XP. In its new version 10 release, venerable file compression app WinZip keeps the clean interface, industry-standard encryption, and other goodies from version 9 and adds extensive automated backup options, and custom and preset compression options.
