This week I said a sad but necessary goodbye to a faithful Windows utility that I have been using for the last 35 years or more, WinZip.
WinZip was just getting too bloated, too unfocused and too slow for me. And crucially, at times it no longer did the one simple thing I wanted from it: unzip a zip file.
So this week, I uninstalled WinZip and moved to the free, open source PeaZip. And I wish I had done it sooner.
Continue reading Goodbye WinZip, hello PeaZipThe other day when I tried to open a zip file WinZip popped up with the following dialog box.
How many options?!
I shared it with my colleagues, via Slack. Most laughed. Particularly the final option: “Setup proxy server settings”. (And it wasn’t because they had used a noun rather than a verb: see ‘setup’ vs ‘set up’.)
Anyway, I clicked “Don’t check, but ask me again in a week”.
Pause.
Wait a minute?! Did it… Did it just…?!
Did it just check? I definitely clicked on “Don’t check…”
It’s maybe time to go looking for a new zip application, WinZip is getting unnecessarily bloated and slow. And now it doesn’t even listen to what I want it to do.
Would you like me to check for the availability of an alternative?
Any suggestions, folks? I’m running Windows 8.1 Pro.
