Some of the basic archive management tools are designed to either open and extract files from an archive or create an archive from a set of files. The archive manager will support a number of formats, enable you to choose the compression and destination, amongst other features. Only the high end tools enable you to create an archive with compression and turn it in to a personal password-protected file.

BCArchive 1.08.3 is a simple free tool that really can't be described as an archive manager. It simply enables you to group together a selection of files in to a password-protected secure archive. If you want to open the files in this archive, only the password holder can make changes.

26 Apr 2007