In 1999, ALZip is originally developed as an internal application at South Korean software company EST soft. It is an archive and compression utility designed for Microsoft Windows to address their employees frustration with using English interface in WinZip. It can unzip 40 different file archives and can ZIP into eight different file archives like TAR, EGG, ZIP and many others. It runs in Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista with 32/64 bit, and Windows 7 with 32/64 bit. ALZip has the ability to set password using AES-128 bit or AES-256 bit encryption; span a ZIP file into ZIP files; merge spanned files in one, restore corrupted files; check for virus using your anti-virus software; create self-extracting archive (EXE) that enables users to open the archive without installing file compression program; check errors in ZIP files; and command line functions for expert users. ALZip is a shareware and is available in English, Korean and Japanese language.
ICEOWS [Interface deCompression Ergonomic for Windows] is the new name of ArjFolder. It combines ArjFolder functionality with new features. It is a program that compresses or extracts archive files. You can read, test, extract, view or comment on files stored in ZIP, GunZIP, ARJ, ICE, TAR, RAR, ACE, Microsoft CAB, MIME, UUEncode, Mac HQX, XXEncode, JAR, EAR, LHA, WAR, Base64, BZ2 and IMP files without external application. It featuers new ICE format for reducing text file size, Microsoft Windows Explorer interface, built-in compression for ZIP and ICE, built-out compression for ARJ, multi-volume spanning, data protection, password encryption for some files, drag and drop, extraction for multi archive and recursive archive, quick view, shell integration to make archive, archive file conversion to archive folder without uncompressing, test and create simple file validator [SFV], restore last modified date, attributes and structure directory, multithreading , self-extracting module for WIN CE 2.0 and WIN32, multi-language user interface.