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Compare
Compress
2000 to WinZip
One of the
most important features of Compress 2000 is its modern
Windows 2000-like interface. If you can use
Windows, you can backup and compress
your files with complete confidence. Try
Compress 2000 for a few weeks and see if you can go back
to WinZip!
Please
check our comparison chart (below), or walk through a few tasks
done in both Compress 2000 and WinZip. You can
also view our quick feature
tour,
or see a few benchmarks.
Comparison
Chart
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Pricing
and License |
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Compress
2000 |
WinZip |
| Price
for one license |
$15 |
$29 |
| Free
upgrades |
Yes |
No
Guarantee |
| One
user may use utility on any number of machines |
Yes |
Yes |
| Evaluation
period |
30
days |
21
days |
|
File
Formats
|
| |
Compress
2000 |
WinZip |
Supports
Zip files
(the Windows standard) |
Yes |
Yes |
Supports
Tar and Gzip files
(the Unix standards) |
Yes |
Read
Only |
| Converts
between Tar/Unix symbolic links and Zip/Windows shortcuts |
Yes |
No |
|
Interface
(1)
|
| |
Compress
2000 |
WinZip |
| Save
archive cleanly |
Yes |
No
(2) |
| Show
archived files in folders |
Yes |
No |
| Show
archived files as list |
Yes |
Yes |
| Add
folders easily |
Yes |
No
(3) |
| Drag
folders into archive |
Yes |
No
(4) |
| Drag
folders out of archive |
Yes |
Not
Possible (5) |
| Drag
files out of archive |
Yes |
Loses
Hierarchy (6) |
| Copy
and paste files |
Yes |
No |
| File
extract and add interfaces |
Like
Windows 98/2000 |
Complicated |
| Maintain
multiple passwords |
Yes |
No |
(1) This
section of the comparison is a bit complex. For
those who wish to skip the details, suffice it to say
that Compress 2000's interface strives to look and work
just like the Microsoft Windows interface we all know.
WinZip has no copy and paste of files and supports drag
and drop inconsistently. It has trouble with
folders full of files. Does that make you
comfortable when backing up a folder of your business
proposals, source code, or other important work?
(2) WinZip saves archives immediately as you make
changes. If you make a mistake or change your mind
when adding or deleting a file, you may lose your files!
By comparison, Compress 2000 works like most
applications and waits to commit changes until you
choose "Save." (3)
There is no way to add folders in WinZip without drag
and drop. Compress 2000 can include a folder
through its regular "Add File" interface, through
drag and drop, or through copy and paste. (4)
As of WinZip 8, dragging a folder into an archive will
probably add the wrong files and perform other odd
mistakes. Hopefully this will be fixed in version
8.1. (5)
Since WinZip shows all files in an archive as one big
list, the only way to spot the folders that are
archived is by looking at the "path" column that is included with each file. The end result is
that there is no way to drag a folder. (6)
Dragging files out of WinZip loses the information about
their paths. Your folders will not be created
properly.
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