WinZip Self-Extractor 3.1 creates selft-extracting Zip files. These self-extracting Zip files are ideal for electronic file distribution, because they contain multiple compressed files, minimizing download time and ensuring that important files do not become separated.
Additionally, Self-Extractor allows the recipient to use a familiar Windows interface to decompress files without a separate unzip utility.
Self-extracting Zip files can optionally run a "setup" or "installation" program, provided by the creator, after the files are decompressed.
WinZip Self-Extractor 3.1 is a companion product to WinZip and is separately licensed. The current release of WinZip contains WinZip Self-Extractor Personal Edition, a subset of WinZip Self-Extractor 3.1. For a comparison between WinZip Self-Extractor Personal Edition and WinZip Self-Extractor 3.1.
WinZip Self-Extractor 3.1 is an updated version of our most recent major release—WinZip Self-Extractor 3.0—that supports Windows Vista™.
