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I installed and activated on a Windows 10 64 bit machine and everything was fine. Immediately after I registered the program, I tried to access the drop and drag screen to unrar a large file. However the cursor turned into an 'X' and nothing happened. I emailed the developer, and he responded in about 10 minutes asking for more information. However in that time, I'd closed the program and re-opened it and discovered that now the drop and drag screen was working fine. It seems helpful to close the program after activation and registration on some systems. I found the unraring process and compression very fast and efficient. Plus, I appreciated the opportunity to right click any compressed file and choose the option of de-compressing to a certain place or just to the place where the original file was.

I know some people have cited there favourite prgrams, but I really appreciate discovering this one - without further trial and error with others - as it does everything I want well. Getting fed up with nag and threat messages from WinRar.

Thanks Developer and GAOTD.

Installed on a Win 10 64 bit machine works fine like it should except the right click start menu would not work in letting me select the control panel or many other services, uninstalled and was able to right click again. Found the problem it is in the setup script, I do not want to give details here because I would need to email what I found. if you would allow me to contact you I will with what I found out. it has to do with the RegAsm command in the setup script for the 64 bit system. Please reply here if you would allow me to contact you at above mentioned emaill address, philipp.elhaus@gmx.net.

Philipp Elhaus, I appreciate your willing to take criticism,views,ideas, etc., like an educated professional in his field. I also believe your trying to improve from the viewers ideas and your own team. I installed this just to have if I needed it whether or not it is indeed fast or slow to others or if your black,white, foreign, American, or whatever. If it ain't now(FASTEST), I am sure it will be in time. Through understanding each person comments and your responses, I am supporting your product based on your dedication to keep responding to mostly everybody's comments , your professional demeanor among other things. This site not only evaluates products from companies but also to see if we can get feedback,answers to questions and consider other people's ideas to improve the product, from the owner,tech, maker or anyone from the company the product comes from, and the responses to ultimately decide if this company is honest in their product/s, good customer support etc. Whether or not your honest in your reply's or not, you convinced me, thank you.

Time will tell if you do indeed take some ideas to your company's product's benefit.

Interest product for year range 1985 to 2000. The question that comes to my mind is why spend the time and processing power to compress better that standard zip (which works fine and has worked for years and will not all of a sudden need some proprietary unzip formula if not used for a few years)? Disk space (and now the "wonderful" cloud space) is abundant and much cheaper that the time and processing power wasted on a special zip for a fractional increase in space and a possible big downside if suddenly it no longer works?

Sounded promising to me ...

... But the reality proved:
1. inefficient interface... opening an explorer interface in the end ? omg - FREE software does better
2. same with compression ratio
3. finally the same with speed

So what is this good for...?

beside all this: My personal biggest drawback: I miss the possibility to integrate into TotalCommander

I will not be downloading and installing BulkZip File Compressor 7.4 from Northstone.
The reason is not because BulkZip File Compressor 7.4 is lousy or crashes my PC - cannot comment on that since I never tried it.
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The reason is: Tyranny of the established user base of other compression software.
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The competition (most of them free and portable) is simply terrific.
They are too good. Tried and tested. Proven over many years. They are 100% reliable.
With such wonderful free and portable alternatives, there really is no need for me to try BulkZip File Compressor 7.4.
Claims of high compression by BulkZip File Compressor 7.4 may be dubious; but even if true - the point users want to say is : "Who cares?". Nowadays 2TB (or bigger) hard discs are so cheap.

Some examples of the sterling competition are:
7Zip-portable
Bandizip-portable
IZArc2Go-portable
Pea-Extractor-portable
PeaZip (by GiorgioTani)-portable
WinRAR-portable
ZipGenius (not portable)

I have had this before. I have Windows 10 64 bit and had problems after installing BulkZip 7.4. Maybe it is exclusive to my computer only, but I thought I would mention it to those of you who may have the same problem or possibly might not be aware of it.

BTW: I noticed this issue when I was using Windows 8.1 64 bit also.

After installing this software and restarting my computer I noticed that using Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 64 bit that when I right click over the START MENU button that most of the commands would not work like selecting CONTROL PANEL, COMMAND PROMPT and a few others. While those selections would load and work from other menu's it would not work from the right click start menu selection. After uninstalling this software and rebooting the issue went away right away.

Also, another irritating issue I had with this software, there seems to be no way that I could find to turn off the introduction screen. And yes I tried checking and unchecking that show introduction at start selection several times even running as ADMINISTRATOR. That's very irritating having to look at that screen and make an extra CLOSE selection every time you want to zip or unzip software.

Also, I have a quick question for the developer, if you look at the license registration I believe it says the license is valid for like 27 days or something like that. Does this mean the software stops working after that date? Or does this mean that you can no longer get updates after that date? Or is this just a 30 day trial? Or even worse, does this mean the program will auto check for an update and once updated will only function as a trial? How can you turn off auto updating?

Sounds like the company wanting us the "customer" to become the beta tester (something like Microsoft does!).

Think I'll be giving this one a miss.

Requires NET Framework 4.0 on Windows XP. I went to the official MS website to install it but I don't trust any third party links that's not MS to link to MS Components to install. Maybe your installer should point to the official MS site to download the component. Otherwise it's a great file compression utility with so many features.

http://www.bulkzip.com/de/imprint/ shows registration NORTHSTONE CONSULTING LTD (Registered In: England and Wales) but no address and phone number. In the European Union there is a very strict impressum duty (name, address, phone). This could become costly. Chosing "Philipp Elhaus" as a pseudo doesn't prove anything.

http://www.bulkzip.com/de/main/comp_compar_2/ shows a list of compression factors dependant of parameters used by hbulkzip and results of "competitors" but no telling whehter derived from a single file or mean value of different files were used neither which file formats.

For me the only relevant criterium is compression factor as there are fast processors nowadays and for slower ones with bulk compression you can do what you like in between. And compression factor is dependant especially on several criteria like file type, e.g. it's useless to work on a lossy file format any further.

But I don't trust to any comparisons using only a single file. Statistics mean results derived from quite a number of experiments.

hi I didn't find bandizip in ur benchmark ive used it for 3 years and its great way better than ur program and its free
http://www.bandisoft.com/bandizip/

The extra value of a few percentages better compression and speed is not very high on my wishllist. The website of Bulkzip (Northstone is a German company it seems) stood out however, in a negative way. A clickable (visitors)tracking icon, a forum based op phpbb, plus a big "support intel core" icon?

I gave this two quick tests. An easy one, first: Moby-Dick (1195K). I tried it against 7Zip, using the maximum compression of both programs. 7Zip got it down to 385K, Bulk to 495K, both very quickly. Then I tried something much more difficult, a 920Mb video file. 7Zip took about six minutes to "compress" it to 895Mb - Bulk crashed immediately. I shall not be keeping BulkZip.

Looking forward to trying this program, information on their website is really interesting regarding compression methods.
Installed and registered without any problems, opened up to the simplest of interfaces that also contained useful information in the introduction.

Decided to try it on today's download zip file; unfortunately it crashed with an unhandled exception message, tested it on another zip file with exactly the same result.

Decided to test it compressing some files but had problems with the selection process.

AverZip had no problems working on the same files; it also has a much better interface and will remain my preferred compression file program.

Sadly to say, but it screwed up my customized Start Menu in Windows 10. Don't ask me how or why... just facts.
It was a nightmare to get it running, never mind.... I keep using 7Zip; solid as rock and never let me down, not once.

I couldn't find any (link) proof of "ranks first in multiple benchmarks regarding compression strength and speed". Not even on their homepage. Figure out the rest...