PeaZip is a compression tool that supports several archive formats, including ZIP, 7Z, ARC, self-extracting 7Z and ARC, and TAR.
The user interface of the application is simple to navigate through, thanks to its Explorer-based layout.
All you have to do is select the files or folders you want to archive, and hit the Add button (the drag and drop method is also supported).
In the next step, you have to set the output destination and configure format options. Plus, you can enable PeaZip to open the output path when the task is done, add each object to a separate archive, append timestamp to the archive name, convert existing archives and use the TAR method before compression.
In addition, you can include and exclude filters, add passwords and create a key file, set compression level, method, dictionary, word, passes, solid block, as well as select function (new archive, add, update), threads, the algorithm and others, test the archive etc.
But you can also run a system benchmark or system tools, such as Disk Cleanup, Disk Defrag, Disk Management, Control Panel and Task Manager.
In the Settings menu, you can select mode for backend binaries user interface and PeaLauncher, reset applications, bookmarks and archive history, enable the encoding job definition as UTF-8 text, and more.
The program has some issues when it comes to the context menu. Indeed, you can easily access the archiving tool under the "PeaZip" menu, but some of its functions are also scattered in the "Sent to" menu. Also, remaining time is not accurately displayed during the compression process (sometimes, question marks replace numbers).
Overall, PeaZip uses a low amount of system memory, comes with a well-drawn help file and is simple to work with. We strongly recommend it to all users.

What's New in This Release:
FILE MANAGER:
· Image manager, handles BMP, JPEG, PNG and TIFF images
· rotate, flip, mirror
· crop
· transform: resize/fit to, and convert in a single passage
· Functions side bar: quick acess to alphabetically sorted most commonly used functions of the program
· Presets in Organize menu collects most common browser's settings, featured also in Organize group in context menu and in status bar - Browser's presets can be toggled with Alt+6, Sorting is now toggled with Alt+5
· Updated themes and PeaLauncher icon
· Various minor fixes and enhancements
EXTRACTION and ARCHIVING:
· Improved mail integration
· Send by mail option featured in main archive creation/conversion tab
· Send by mail by default now does not keep a copy of the sent archive on the filesystem
· Added Keep archive switch to optionally save on the filesystem archives sent by mail
· Added -add2multi7zmail and -add2multizipmail switches (for context menu entries) to copress and mail
· Added "Zip and mail" context menu en...

Users are advised to pay attention while installing this ad-supported application:
· Offers to change the homepage for web browsers installed in the system
· Offers to change the default search engine for web browsers installed in the system
· Offers to download or install software or components (such as browser toolbars) that the program does not require to fully function