PowerArchiver is an advanced compression and archive utility sporting a mulitcore zip engine.

PowerArchiver new ZIP/ZIPX engine, only one fully compatible with WinZip and SecureZIP. Supports fully ZIPX standard (lzma, ppmd, wavpack and jpeg) for lowest size archives, unlimited sized ZIP/ZIPX archives, AES 256bit encryption, Unicode languages, Multicore compression which can increase speeds operations up to 4x.

Fully supports creating and opening of:

ZIP (multicore),

ZIPX (multicore),

7-zip (multicore LZMA and LZMA2),

LHA,CAB,TAR/GZ/BZ2, BH and PAE archives.

Opens and extracts: RAR (10% faster than WR 4.x), ISO (ISO9660 and UDF), ACE, ARJ, MSI, NSIS, CHM, DMG, RPM, CPIO, VHD, XAR, LZMA, SquashFS, CramFS, WIM (and more!)

PowerArchiver an advanced set of tools that can be used to manage your archives:

Convert Tool – convert files among formats supported in PowerArchiver. It can convert thousands of files and folders at the same time.

Encode Tool – encode/decode files in UU, XX, MIME and yENC formats.

Repair Tool – repair broken ZIP archives with one simple operation.

Write/Merge Multivolume Tools – split ZIP files into multivolumes, and also merge multivolumes into a single ZIP archive.

Batch ZIP Tool – batch compress thousands of files into separate archives.

Multi-Extract Tool – extract thousands of archives at the same time.

SFX Tool – Create SFX files from ZIP, 7-Zip, CAB and PAE archives via the “Make SFX” feature or with the easy-to-use SFX Wizard.

The Standard version comes with a Queue system for sequential compression/exuaction scheduling. The "Pro" an "ToolBox" versions have a more robust enterprise class backup system, as well as other upgrade like an FTP Client, Blu-Ray and ISO burning and The PowerArchive Outlook plug-in.