PowerArchiver 2011 12.01.02 Publisher's description PowerArchiver 2011 is the fastest & best version of the award winning compression utility to date.The 2011 version of PowerArchiver introduces new features along w/vast improvements on it's great signatures features as well. New & notable improvements in 2011 version incl. UAC compatibility w/Vista & Win7 to elevate PA to admin level when compressing/extracting to folders, VSS support enables compression of locked files(Outlook PST), FIPS 140.2 certified AES encryption, fully integrated shell extensions, Adv. Backup, PRO/Toolbox versions have updated CD/DVD/Blu Ray Burner w/standalone app. & ISO ripping, New S/FTP client, Virtual Drive, BitDefender Internet Security included in the TBX version($50 value free)It's ZIP engine has been improved to better handle ZIP files with foreign filenames & to compress larger archives much faster. It's Multi-Core optimized which leads up to 4x speed improvement compared to competitors & uses full potential of your PC while supporting ZIPX archives (JPEG, LZMA, PPMD, WavPacl, BZ2 support). Other ZIP/X related features incl. full Unicode, AES & unlimited file size/number support. RAR extraction improved w/10% faster extraction than top competitors making PA 2011 the fastest RAR extraction tool available.PA 2011 has improved on it's supported formats. 7Zip now supports creating & extracting LZMA2 archives w/unique 7zip features such as optimized compression. TAR has added tar.xz support & is now faster while supporting creation & extraction of files over 4GB. ISO support is expanded to extract UDF(unicode & over 4GB) ISO's along w/IS09660 files, all up to 2x faster. Pro/TBX users can create UDF ISO & ISO9660 files. PA 2011 added support for extracting multiple new formats: MSI, NSIS, CHM, DMG, RPM, CPIO, VHD, XAR, SquashFS, CramFS, WIM, in addition to already supported formats; ZIP, RAR, 7-ZIP, CAB, ACE, HA (LZH), TAR, GZIP, BZIP2, BH, XXE, UUE, yEN & MIME (Base 64), ARJ, ARC, ZOO, & ISO, BIN, IMG & NRG disc image formats. Requirements: Windows Platform What's new in this version: UAC elevation support, Full VSS support, Adv. update system w/Patchbeam, New FTP app w/ SFTP & Secure protocols, Better burning capabilities w/UDF support & standalone interface, Fastest unRar engine available, ISO w/UDF support, Improved Zip, Impr. TAR & 7Zip support w/LZMA2, Save/Restore settings