UltimateZip 3.0.3
Copyright (c) 2001 - 2005 SWE von Schleusen.
All rights reserved.
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***** Installation *****

   If you received this version of UltimateZip on a floppy disk or a cd-rom, please
   follow the instructions on the disk label to install UltimateZip.


   1. Select "Run" from the Start menu.
   2. Enter the full Path of "uzsetup.exe". (for example: C:\Desktop\uzsetup.exe)
   3. Pess the "Enter" and follow the instructions.


***** Requirements *****

  - Windows 98 /Me /NT /2000 /XP /2003
  - Some features require external programs. 

***** Documentation *****

    For full documentation (help file) press the F1 key at any time while running
    UltimateZip.

***** What's new in version 3.0.3 (04/06/2005)*****

  - Maintenance Release
  - some small improvements
  - some bug fixes

***** What's new in version 3.0.2 (03/23/2005)*****

  - Some new Toolbar themes (not skins) added
  - Mime/Base 64 support added
  - some improvements
  - some bug fixes

***** What's new in version 3.0 (02/28/2005)*****

  - Integrated AES (128, 192 and 256 bit) support for ZIP archive format (WinZip(R) compatible)
  - Support for large ZIP files  (files bigger than 4 gb (ZIP and added files), more than 65535 files)
  - Deflate 64 (Enhanced Deflate) extract support (ZIP format)
  - Support for WAR format added
  - Support for EAR format added
  - Support for Unix created multi-header compressed GZIP archives
  - Ascii Translation for GZIP archives added
  - Foldertree + file browser added (Explorer view)
  - Upadte feature for modified files added
  - Better Rar support (unicoded filenames, files bigger than 4 GB) 
  - Speed improvements
  - New SFX Creator for ZIP files (more features for ZIP sfx files)
  - ZIP SFX stub improved (Create Sfx files in english, german and frensh language)
  - Startup folder feature added
  - Info dialogs improved
  - Full support for ZIP Splitted files (files must not be merged to extract)
  - Lha SFX stub now supports Frozen 7
  - Signature feature added (ZIP Format)
  - New DLL for Unrar
  - New DLL for Unace
  - Icons for every archive type added
  - 'ZIP and Mail Extra' feature added
  - Find files in archive feature added
  - New Skins added
  - Full customizeable toolbar
  - Better look under Win XP
  - New HTML Help file
  - Installation updated, smaller file size, better silent install
  - Check Update and Download feature added
  - Select Viewer dialog improved
  - Drag&Drop support for Backup Wizard, Batch Extractor and Batch Compressor
  - Support for 24x24 and 48x48 Toolbar images added (16x16, 24x24,32x32 and 48x48 allowed now)
  - many small improvements
  - many bug fixes 


***** What's new in version 2.7.1 (09/27/2002)*****

  - Major extract bug fixed
  - Some other small bug fixes
  - CheckOut window improved
  - New default toolbar skin
  - New Icon


***** What's new in version 2.7 (09/19/2002)*****

  - Ace v2 support
  - Rar 3.x support
  - BZip2 support (only main program)
  - Win XP Theme support
  - New Toolbar and Menu features (chevrons, new button and menu styles, vertical menus,etc.)
  - New Skin size for small buttons (16x16 image size)
  - Speed improvements (loading, adding ,and extracting is much faster now)
  - Shell extension improvements (menu icons, customizeable contex menu items, DragDrop Handler, etc.)
  - File splitting is PKZip/WinZip compatible now (.z01, .z02, ..., .zip)
  - Tip of the Day dialog
  - File Comments (only Zip format)
  - Support for extracting empty folders
  - Reuse Windows Feature
  - Overwrite dialog improved
  - File association improved
  - Better Tar-GZip/ Tar-BZip2 handling
  - New attribute options in add dialogs
  - Passwords are encrypted now in backupscripts
  - many small improvements
  - many bug fixes


***** What's new in version 2.6 (09/06/2001)*****

  - Toolbar Skins
  - Quick Start task try tool
  - Resizable dialogs
  - XP Menu Style (optional)
  - CheckOut Icon maximum, set up from 50 to 500
  - many bug fixes


***** What's new in version 2.5 (07/22/2001) *****
  
  - Backup Wizard, to create backup scripts
  - Optional "Add" dialog: Compress many files and folders at one time,
    include/exclude lists, save file lists, edit comment when adding files
  - SFX-Stubs for Ace, Arj, Bh, Jar, Lha, and Rar
  - Create and merge multi-volume sets
  - Batch Compressor, compresses individual files to individual archives
  - Rename files in zip archives
  - Optional floating comment window when opening Zip archives
  - Optional progress dialog
  - Default extract and add folder
  - "Store already compressed files" option added
  - Open extract folder afer extract operation
  - "Deselect all" option added
  - many small improvements
  - language bugs fixed
  - many other bugs fixed

***** What's new in version 2.0.2 (06/04/2001) *****

  - evil bug fixed

***** What's new in version 2.0.1 (05/26/2001) *****

  - many bug fixes
  - Test Log improved
  - Shellextension improved

***** What's new in version 2.0 (05/09/2001) *****

  - Wizard interface for simple compressing, updating, decoding, and extracting
  - Better implementation of *.uze encrypted format
  - Text viewer added
  - Last Output and Comment windows improved
  - Toolbar background added
  - Selfextrctor improved (now it possible create simple software-installations and updates)
  - Shellextension improved
  - some bug fixes

***** UltimateZip 1.0 (04/01/2001) *****

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