Tutorial | PeaZip - Free Zip / Unzip + Rar File Extractor

How to extract, create, convert and encrypt archive files using PeaZip free archive manager open-source software.

PeaZip is a free alternative to WinZip, WinRar, and others. Extract files is a task we do very often on our computer. This tutorial can be very useful if you need to use free and open-source software to do that.

Download and install:
Go to: http://www.peazip.org/index.html

Choose your version, download and open the .exe file.

Select Accept and click next. Select Standard installation, choose your language and click next.

Click Next and Install.

Extracting Files:

Right-click with the mouse on file to be extracted. Select PeaZip and 'Extract..'.

Choose your output destination for the file:

Click OK.
Result:

Creating Files:

Right-click with the mouse on file to be created. Select PeaZip and 'Add to archive'

Choose your output destination for the file:

Select the type of archive you want to create, here I'm using '.ZIP'. Click OK.
Result:

Converting Files:

Right-click with the mouse on file to be converted. Select PeaZip and 'Convert'.

Choose your output destination for the file:

Select the type of archive you want to convert to, here I'm using '.TAR'. Click OK.
Result:

Encrypting Files:
Open PeaZip:


Click 'Tools' + 'Create random password/Keyfile' or press 'Ctrl + F9'

Choose how many characters you want in your password:

Click 'Create random password' and Copy the password created

Right-click with the mouse on file to be encrypted:

Select PeaZip and 'Add to archive'

Choose your output destination for the file:

Click on 'Enter password/Keyfile'

Paste the previously created password

Click 'OK'
Result:

Encrypted files are tagged '*' and will ask for password to open it.

End of Tutorial

That's all for today. I hope you all enjoyed.

Thank You

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