gHacks technology news » unpack http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Unpack Installers With Universal Extractor http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/23/unpack-installers-with-universal-extractor/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/11/23/unpack-installers-with-universal-extractor/#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:06:21 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=8472 Extract Now was the application of choice for a long time on my computer system. It integrated itself nicely into the right-click context menu and was able to unpack almost any file or files that had been selected. It would queue up all tasks at hand and run them in the background with options to delete the source file once the operation had been finished.

One of the main features was the ability to search for archives in folders. All discovered file archives would be automatically added to the queue and processed. It had some limitations though. The major limitation was that it could not unpack software installers. It is sometimes important to be able to unpack an installer to check the files that will be installed before starting the process. Sometimes a single file might even be all that is needed.

Universal Extractor works pretty much the same way that Extract Now does. It integrates itself into the right-click context menu and can process multiple software archives at once. It can be used to unpack multiple archives or installer that reside in the same directory at once.

The last sentence contains the biggest feature and a limitation. The main feature is that it can extract all kinds of software installers so that the files of each package become available. The limitation is that it cannot search in folders for archives.

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To sum it up: Universal Extractor supports additional formats and the important software installers that Extract Now does not. The only unique feature of Extract Now is the ability to search for archives in folders which might not be needed at all depending on the amount of archives on a computer system.

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Krunch offers two more options which make the site even more valuable. Unkrunch on web decompresses a compressed file that exists on a webserver on the web. You simply enter the url to the file and it will be decompressed. Last but not least you have the option to compress files on websites and download them as one big compressed file. Pretty useful if you don´t have access to such programs at your computer for instance.

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