WinZip(R) version 8.0
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All Rights Reserved
Major changes in Version 8.0
WinZip 8.0 includes significant enhancements for all WinZip
users, whether novice or advanced. The new Zip and E-Mail
feature zips documents and folders and attaches the Zip file to
an e-mail message without leaving Explorer. The greatly enhanced
Wizard can now create and update Zip files, as well as extract
and install from MIME and similar encoded files (great for e-mail
attachments). Improvements to the WinZip Classic interface make
it more Windows-like than ever; for example, an optional
Explorer-style toolbar is available, and, when creating or updating
an archive, WinZip automatically stores the same subfolders and
folder information that Windows Explorer would use for a similar
copy operation. And installing those very popular desktop themes
and screen savers from Internet downloads has always been a
difficult and cumbersome process, but WinZip's new automatic
theme and screen saver installer makes it easy.
Details on these and many other enhancements follow.
Enhanced WinZip Wizard
- WinZip Wizard functionality has been extended to allow you to
create and update Zip files from the Wizard. After the initial
Welcome panel, the Wizard displays a new Select Activity panel;
from here, you specify whether you want to unzip/install,
update an existing archive, or create a new archive. Like the
existing Unzip/Install Wizard, the new Add Wizard is designed
to make the most common operations easy and convenient.
- The Wizard can now extract and install from MIME and other
encoded files. This makes processing of e-mail attachments
from online service such as AOL and CompuServe easier for
Wizard users.
- The Wizard now supports automatic installation of desktop
themes and screen savers (see below for more information).
More Windows-like interface
- When you click the right mouse button on a file in the
archive contents list, the context menu now displays any
associated actions for the type of file selected. For example,
right-clicking on a .DOC file (Microsoft Word document) might
display "Open", "Print", and "New". As in Explorer, hold down
the Shift key while clicking the right mouse button to add an
"Open With ..." choice to the menu. This menu item allows you
to choose the application you wish to use to open the selected
file.
- Inclusion of subfolders when adding, updating, etc., is now
automatic and mirrors Explorer's treatment of subfolders. You
no longer have to check the "Include subfolders" checkbox;
instead, WinZip determines when to include subfolders using the
same logic that Explorer does. Specifically:
1) When individual files are added, WinZip does not look in
subfolders for files with the same name.
2) When a folder is added, WinZip always adds the contents of
all its subfolders, just as Explorer always copies all
subfolders when you copy a folder.
The "Include subfolders" option in the Add dialog box is still
available if wildcards (* or ?) are used in the filename field.
This allows you to, for example, zip all *.DOC files in a
folder tree with a single operation.
WinZip automatically stores the same path information that is
copied when using drag and drop or copy and paste in the
Windows Explorer.
- Optional new "Explorer-style" toolbar buttons are available.
These Internet Explorer-like buttons are simpler in style than
the traditional WinZip toolbar buttons and optionally appear
in gray, changing to full color when the mouse pointer is on
them.
- WinZip now displays a tooltip when a Zip file is selected in
Windows Explorer. The tooltip shows how many files are in the
archive and displays the archive comment, if there is one. If
"View as Web Page" is enabled in Explorer, the information will
instead appear in the description area of the web page. The
Windows Desktop Update (Active Desktop) must be installed and
WinZip shell extensions enabled in order to use this feature.
- When you click the right mouse button on a file in the archive
contents list, the pop-up menu now displays only file-related
actions such as Extract. This is more consistent with general
Windows conventions. Use the Actions or File menu for
archive-related actions like Virus Scan.
- Under Windows 98 and Windows 2000, WinZip menus now display small
icons corresponding to the menu items' toolbar buttons.
Desktop theme and screen saver support
- WinZip can install desktop themes and screen savers contained
in Zip files. To use this feature, simply open a Zip file
containing a theme or screen saver and click the Install
button. WinZip will extract all necessary files to the
appropriate folder(s) and then run the required system theme or
screen saver support application to complete installation.
Theme/screen saver installation is also supported by the WinZip
Wizard. See online help ("Install Feature" topic) for complete
information.
Other changes
- Zip and E-Mail adds a new feature to the Windows Explorer
context menu. To use the feature, simply select files or
folders in Explorer and choose Zip and E-Mail from the pop-up
menu. WinZip creates a Zip file containing the selected items
and attaches it to a new e-mail message. The Zip file is
automatically deleted when your e-mail program no longer needs
it. This feature requires that a supported e-mail application
such as Outlook be installed.
- WinZip can automatically display the Zip comment when opening
a Zip file that contains a comment.
- When the open Zip contains a comment, WinZip displays a
new icon on the Classic interface status line. You can
click the icon to view and edit the comment.
- Most of WinZip's major dialogs now have "What's This?" help.
Click on the question mark in the dialog's title bar, then
click on a control for quick information about how it's used.
- WinZip now displays an animated progress dialog during lengthy
archive operations and can be minimized during such operations.
- The Miscellaneous tab of the Configuration dialog has several
new options, allowing you to:
- set the number of recently used files listed in the
File menu,
- enable or disable the theme/screen saver installer,
- automatically show comments when opening Zip files,
- enable or disable the animated status dialog used
during long Zip operations, and
- restore all warning messages that you have previously
turned off.
- A new option in the System tab of the Configuration dialog
allows you to control whether dialogs are shown when you drag
and drop files from Explorer onto an archive or a WinZip
window.
- The list of recently used files in the Classic mode File menu
has been enhanced:
- The case and capitalization of files in the list adhere to
the preferences you have selected for files in the main
WinZip window.
- WinZip no longer places in the list files that were
automatically opened from the Windows temporary folder.
This means that, for example, temporary Zip files created
by opening e-mail attachments won't clutter the file list.
- A new button for Close Archive is available and can be added to
the toolbar from the toolbar configuration dialog.
- If you click the View button and multiple files are selected,
WinZip will perform the specified action on all selected files;
previously, WinZip only performed the action on the first
selected file. For example, if you click View when two .DOC
files are selected, both documents will be opened.
- The WinZip Self-Extractor Personal Edition is now a 32-bit
program exclusively and no longer supports creation of 16-bit
extractors.
- Winzip's Windows extensions are now 32-bit Explorer Shell
extensions only. The File Manager extension is no longer
supported.
- The System tab of the Configuration dialog has an option to
change WinZip's associated file types.
- Miscellaneous improvements to online help.
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Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
For more help, visit our Driver Support section for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.