It's ready for use from the moment it is deployed on your system, also integrating in the context menu for enhanced ease of access. To end withĪlthough Universal Extractor's features don’t quite make the list, the purpose it was built for is carried out nicely with each task. It is great for testing apps for portability because you can extract files directly from installer packages without having to go through the installation process.
There is also a portable edition available. Description: It allows you to extract files from many types of archive files, including ZIP, RAR, ARJ, LZH, MSI, EXE created using various installer packages such as Wise, Inno Setup, NSIS etc. Please bear in mind that it’s only meant to be used as a decompression utility.
Universal Extractor doesn’t pass as a competitor for much evolved software such as WinZip, WinRar or 7-Zip, since it lacks archiving abilities. Plus, you can check options for enabling warnings before executing files, removing duplicate files, removing temporary files, or for appending missing file extensions. The Preferences section allows you to set up the language of the application and the debug file directory. The application’s interface is incredibly simple with just two visible fields: one for the source file and one for the destination folder.
This feature is configurable during installation where, at one point, you can select the shortcuts to be bundled in the right-click menu: “Add UniExtract Files”, “Add UniExtract Here”, and “Add UniExtract to Subdir”. On the upside, it integrates itself into the Explorer’s context menu for easy and comfortable access.
Also, the number of files it can process simultaneously is restricted to one, so batch decompressing is not possible.
As such, you cannot rely on it to create archives. It will never replace WinRAR, 7-Zip, etc. This application is not intended to be a general purpose archiving program. There’s no other purpose to this program than extracting the contents of archives. Universal Extractor is a program do to exactly what it says: extract files from any type of archive, whether it's a simple zip file, an installation program (like Wise or NSIS), or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package. Universal Extractor is an application destined to extract virtually any type of archive available in today’s market: RAR, ZIP, 7Z, EXE, TAR, NRG, ISO, DLL, you name it this program is able to process all of them at incredible speed.