ConeXware has released an updated version of this excellent archiving utility. With a modern easy-to-use interface, PowerArchiver provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools. Built-in support includes ZIP, CAB, LHA, LZH, TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2 and BH archives. Can read and extract from RAR, ARJ, ACE, ARC, ZOO, GZIP and BZIP2 archives. Also it has built-in support for XXE and UUE Internet encoded files.

Major changes: Internal Viewer: additional support for more than 14 graphic formats (PNG, JPEG, TIFF, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Autodesk images files, SGI, Truevision images, PCX, ...). Encoding Support: Added full yENC support. Windows XP ClearType support. Encryption Support: Added AES (256-bits) algorithm support to PAE. Backwards compatible with all PowerArchiver 2002 versions. Web Update Enhancements: New web update check facility that has ability to preview version changes before downloading update. New toolbar: it can be docked or float and it works better with Win98. It is also much smaller and takes up less space allowing for more buttons to be shown. Solved all minor graphic issues when using Win98 and certain graphic cards. PowerArchiver is now faster, load times are significantly improved. Memory usage has been optimized and reduced. Please see the full changelog at the program's homepage. PowerArchiver 2003 is available via the auto-update feature and as a separate trial download. The price for one license is $19.95. Homepage, download, changelog