Free self extracting archive utility software for windows

SEA is a free application which allows you repair self-extracting ZIP files created by Winzip. It rebuilds a files header if it were damaged by a virus or download corruption. The process is fully automatic and returns a message indicating the level of success achieved. Tested with WinZip Self-Extractor Personal Edition (1285) and WinZip Self-Extractor 2.1

SAHA Self Extract 1 is regarded as a convenient as well as useful tool that is designed to allow you to create protect self-extracting EXE. All data file, picture, video, and master EXE is hide and protected.

Requirements: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista.

Zip Self-Extractor Creator 1 is designed as a useful compression tool which allows you to convert zips into self-extracting executables. This zip self-extractor supports 128-bit and 256-bit AES strong encryption. Create EXEs with custom icons. Auto-run an embedded EXE after unzipping with command-line arguments. Option to unzip with no user interface interaction using an auto-created temp directory, or a pre-set directory path.

ZipArchive Library is a free library that adds zip compression and decompression functionality to your program, allowing you to create and modify ZIP files in the compatible way with WinZip, PKZIP and other popular archivers. Its easy and practical interface makes the library suitable for the beginners as well as for the advanced users.
Main features:
- work in a compatible way with PKZIP and WinZip
- create, modify, extract and test zip archives
- create and extract multi-disk archives (on non-removable disks as well)
- add file to the archive from another archive without decompressing the file (copy compressed data) (see CZipArchive::GetFromArchive)
- highly optimized deleting multiple files from the archive
- optimized replacing and renaming files in the archive
- compression from and decompression to memory, create the whole archive in memory, extract the archive from memory (see Creating and extracting archives from/in memory)
- password encryption and decryption supported
- possibility to create or extract self-extracting archives
- smart compression, if enabled, prevents the file in the archive to be larger after compression (see CZipArchive::Smartness)
- safe compression with CZipArchive::Flush function
- using callback objects for notifications
- to provide easy disk change in a multi-disk archives
- for the progress control when adding, extracting, testing or deleting files or saving archives central directory
- extracting and deleting using wildcard pattern matching (see CZipArchive::FindMatches)
- UNC and Windows Unicode paths recognized (still, due to the zip format specification, the filnames in the archive are stored using OEM-defined character set)
- wide characters supported
- support for the Java TM Archive (jar) File Format (see CZipArchive::SetIgnoreCRC)
- can be used as a static library or DLL (necessary VC++ projects included)
- possibility to integrate help system with MSDN (see Integrating with MSDN (Visual Studio 6.0 only))
- easy interface
- easy transfer to other system platforms
- speedy
- well documented
- full source code provided
- Visual Studio Projects: version 2005 (available with the library), versions 6.0 and 2003 (available at download page .)
- sample applications provided (for the STL version located in stl/zippie, the MFC version (multithreaded) is available separately