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Expert user may customize ZipGenius in an extreme way by accessing to the "Advanced Settings" section in the Options dialog.

Here you will find seven sub-sections:

1) MISC. SETTINGS:

Preview file with associated program
When this option is enabled, ZipGenius try to open a file through the associated program to that.

Export file list to format
You can tell to ZipGenius which format should be used by default to export the files list. In this case, if you will click "Export", the program will automatically export files to chosen format.

Show time spent
Enable this option to read how much time ZipGenius spent to complete an action. Don't be trustful to timings reported because they are influenced by hardware and software configuration.

Enable "Scan and Zip" feature
Enable this option if you want to import pictures from TWAIN devices, such as scanners and digital cameras.

Show read progress bar...
Here you can set at which number of files ZipGenius should show a progress bar, used to tell if it is reading the open archive. Default is "300", minimum is "50", maximum is "30000"

Enable Zip Auto "Check Integrity"

ZIP files are often damaged while being downloaded and in that case you need to TEST the archive, if you want to know if files can b extracted. If you want to do automatically that, you cam enabled this option; optionally, you can force ZipGenius to repair that. 

2) Details selection

Here you can choose which columns should appear when you will use ZipGenius in "Details" view mode. If you check "Auto settings" option, ZipGenius will choose columns to show upon user layout selected. If you want to see only common columns, just click on "Default columns".

3) Antivirus

ZipGenius can drive an antivirus program to scan an archive, so here you can set antivirus program path, additional parameters for command line, and you can tell to ZipGenius to perform scanning.

4) TEMPORARY FILES

This tab allows to choose the folder in which ZipGenius will store its temporary files. TIP: you should indicate a folder in a disk unit that has a large amount of free space, because each zip file has to be "recreated" each time you modify its content; moreover, ZipGenius makes a backup copy while adding files, in order to save your data if files addition goes wrong.

Don't search temp. files at Windows startup
Each time Windows starts, ZipGenius searches for files that may have been left from previous session and delete them; if you enable this option, ZipGenius won't search those files and they may waste your hard disk space.

5) ENCRYPTION (CrYptoZip 2)  

      See also "Encrypting an archive".

Store CZIP key without confirmation
When this option is enabled, ZipGenius will automatically store CZIP Key/Passphrase in Password Manager List.

Force CZIP process on hard disk
If you use CZIP algorhythm to encrypt an archive, this option will force encryption process to be executed on hard disk; encryption will take a longer time, but it ensures completion if archive size is very large.

Default encryption method
Now, you can choose one on four encryption algorhythms: CryptoZip (suggested), Rijndael (AES), Blowfish, Twofish.

Default CZIP 2 archive type
Select wich type of CZIP archive should be suggested by program as default: you can create Standard, Auto-locking or Auto-erasing CZIP archives.

6) shell integration

Here you can set parameters for action started from Windows shell (the "context menu").

You can choose default compression level between "Maximum" and "Storage (no compression)".

You can enable ZipGenius shell extension by checking the box labeled "Enable context menu", then you will see ZipGenius items in the context menu that will popup when you will click on zip files or on other files. ZipGenius items can appear all listed in that menu or you can group them in a submenu: check the "Use cascaded menu" box.

You can customize ZipGenius shell extension by choosing which items should appear. NOTE: some item may appear or not depending by certain conditions (type of file, number of files selected, etc.).

ZipGenius supports also documents made with OpenOffice.org/StarOffice 6.x. Even if this is an office suite, it produces common zip files and give them a custom file extension; inside these files are XML files that are needed to compose the document on screen. If you check "Let ZipGenius support OpenOffice.org documents" option, ZipGenius will add two items in their context menu: "Open with ZipGenius" and "Optimize". The last one allows to reduce OpenOffice.org documents size).

Optionally, you can hide or show icons in ZipGenius items.

Check the "Drag over a folder to extract files" option to be allowed to extract files by dragging a zip files over a folder with right mouse button.

7) SAFETY AND Privacy

Long filenames warning
Some time ago, a group of researchers discovered that ZIP format has a security "flaw": every zip program can't handle zipped files whose filenames are longer than 255 characters. This issue may lead to a potentially dangerous situation, because someone may send malicious code through zip files. The worst side of this news is that, just as zip programs, even antivirus programs can't scan these files. Moreover, some zip programs (included Windows XP "compressed folders" system) may crash with unpredictable effects. This may be a very rare case, but ZipGenius 5 is ready to jump this obstacle: ZipGenius, in fact, allows users to choose how to behave in this case, so ZG can just warn about the presence of a file of this kind, or it can ignore that file while reading or extracting other files from zip archive.

You can also choose to disable this feature, but you do this at your own risk.

Recently Used Files List - privacy settings

This list reports the last archives opened with ZipGenius. You can enable, disable or enable it just for a sessions (in this case the list will be deleted when ZipGenius session ends).

Encrypt History File

Check this box to encrypt your history file with a strong algorhythm, so that you can read it only through ZipGenius. A non-encrypted file can be easily read through Notepad.exe. Each time you will enable/disable this feature, your previous history file will be deleted. In addition, now you can even delete the history file by clicking on "Clean history".

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