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[CyberNerd]

This is probably a really stupid question:

 

need Zip compression software - requirements:

 

No password protection

Runs on windows with GUI

Free for comercial / edu use

no spyware

no advertising

preferably saves to .zip as default

 

 

can I shutdown the password thing on 7zip ?

[mrforgetful]

Err, didn't you just describe something exactly like Windows Compressed folders?

Right Click > Sent To > Compressed Folder

[tom_newton]

by "no password protection" you mean "does not support password protection"?

[Geoff]

I use 7-Zip here.

 

http://www.7-zip.org/

 

There's a prebuilt MSI you can deploy it with on the download page. It's GPL.

[CyberNerd]

Of course, didn't think of that because its such a rubbish feature - poor compressiuon format, no passwords. Just what I need.

 

I'll look into enabling it on 2k

[CyberNerd]

@ geoff.

indeed, but Boss doesn't want kids to password protect their files. They have no right to privacy here (real world training I assume).

Can you disable the feature ?

[Geoff]

Sure. Just comment it out in the source and recompile.

[CyberNerd]

configure

make && make install

 

?

Thought not.

 

I'll probably need to buy a tonne of other software to do it and It'll take me an age. Anyway It seems enabling folder compression on 2k is pretty easy, thanks though.

 

http://www.petri.co.il/enable_compressed_folder_in_w2k.htm

[Geoff]

It'll compile with the cut down MS VC++ you can get off the MS site.

[Ric_]

@Cybernerd: For ease, simply make it School policy to delete any password protected files. They'll soon learn that they can't hide their stuff that way.