How to open a .zipx file (unzip zipx files)
02 Jul 10 by IDGLabs.NET in News
Since WinZip is the one that created .zipx, this new compression format, the best solution is to get a copy of WinZip and use it to open and extract the contents of the zipx file. To open/extract a zipx file:
- Download and install the latest version of WinZip or Bitzipper
- Once you have WinZip (or Bitzipper) installed open it and go to File->Open
- Browse to the location of the .zipx file and select it
- Once you can see the contents of the .zipx file click on Extract To and select a location where to unpack the .zipx file
Once WinZip (or Bitzipper) is installed you can extract a zipx file by right-clicking it and selecting Extract To or Extract here. There are other programs that can open/extract zipx files, and probably most zip utilities will support this format very soon.
What’s .ZIPX?
ZIPX (.zipx) is a file extension for a compressed file with WinZip (they first introduced the format) or Bitzipper. A Zipx file is basically a zip file but created using advanced compression methods, supported in the latest version of WinZip and also by other zip utilities (Bitzipper is the latest one to add ZIPX support). Because of these new compression methods introduced by WinZip, zipx is practically the smallest zip files up to date.
With the latest version of WinZip or Bitzipper you will create .zipx files by default, but if you want you can still choose to create “Legacy Zip 2.0″ compressed files that are more common and for which there are more utilities available.
ZIPX was introduced as a default compression method starting with WinZip 12 which was released in May 2009. To be more specific, the .zipx file is a .zip file that uses one of the following compression methods based on the content to be archived: PPMd, WavPack, LZMA, or bzip2. This results in a smaller size for the archive, since images will be compressed using an image compression algorithm, multimedia files will be compressed using a more adequate method and so on.
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