There are plenty of recommended free archive managers, but there are good reasons why you should look at some of the popular commercial alternatives, such as Stuffit for Windows. The primary reason is that this archive manager will enable you to handle just about any archived format, including the Mac-based .sit format. This archive format grew popular on the Mac as a version of Stuffit was included free with the Mac operating system for many years. Although many Mac users have moved over to .zip, it's still a well-used archive format on that operating system).

Stuffit 2009 for Windows is a comprehensive archive management tool. The other good reason for choosing Stuffit for Windows is that it enables you to create self-extracting archives, which are an excellent way of sending archived files to novice users. Alternatively, you can use a self-extracting archive to extract the files and auto-run a setup file.

The latest Stuffit 2009 for Windows supports the popular 7z archive format, ships with an improvement user-interface and much more.

03 Feb 2009