Features
7-Zip supports:
- The 256-bit AES cipher. Encryption can be enabled for both files and the 7z directory structure. When the directory structure is encrypted, users are required to supply a password to see the filenames contained within the archive. WinZip-developed zip file AES encryption standard is also available in 7-Zip to encrypt ZIP archives with AES 256-bit, but it does not offer filename encryption as in 7z archives.
- Volumes of dynamically variable sizes, allowing use for backups on removable media such as writable CDs and DVDs.
- Usability as a basic orthodox file manager when used in 2-panel mode.
- Multiple-core CPU threading settings can be configured.
- The ability to attempt to open EXE files as archives, allowing the decompression of data from inside many "Setup" or "Installer" or "Extract" type programs without having to launch them.
- The ability to unpack archives with corrupted filenames, renaming the files as required.
- The ability to create self-extracting single- (but not multi-) volume archives.
- Command-line interface.
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