This is about the time I discovered 7-zip, and wish I had found it sooner. I still have version 17.5 installed alongside 7-zip. I was not happy about them trying to sneak in additional software, for a paying customer, that they would try to charge for later, and cancelled my annual upgrade assurance plan. They sent me an alternate link for the package that only contained the WinZip utility. I was not happy about this and wrote to them to tell them. During installation I decided to read the EULA (the first time I ever read one carefully) and it appeared that it was going to install additional software from Corel that I did not care about. Regarding WinZip: I used to purchase it on a maintenance plan until version 17.5, when I noticed that the installation file was significantly larger that the previous version. or are trying to install on a machine without an optical drive.

'Canon's software for their EOS cameras is quite useful, and there are regular updates available, but the problem has always been that they are only updates - you need an original version of the EOS software installed, before they will install.'Ĭanon's policy isn't a problem, unless you've lost your CD, just bought a second hand camera with no CD, or out on a job and left your CD back in the office. I've never come across a downloadable installer/updater that needed to be unpacked before using, but 7-Zip will open pretty much any package that can be unpacked. At the moment, I mostly use 7-Zip, and consider it to be one of the best compression utilities available. I haven't used WinZip since buying WinRAR many years ago. Otherwise, Canon charges for the disk when the downloaded updater could be used if it can be unpacked. exe files like Canon updates that need a CD to install. It does support cloud storage, which may be useful. I visited their website and it is up to v20 with a Standard and a Pro version now.

Winzip pro 20