Zip format is one of the most convenient and acknowledged for its capacity. Undoubtedly, everyone has a lot of zip files on PC. And, from time to time, everyone is facing the problem of damaged zip archives. Unfortunately, we can’t avoid it, as zip archives are still an extremely popular form of data transfer.

Often, when downloading a zip file, an error occurs, or there is a problem with the telephone line, or may be there is a virus on your PC, and finally you get a corrupted zip file. Also the corruption of a zip archive may be caused by file system failures or you may discover it when you open files, storing on damaged media storage devices. Anyway, when you see the system notice “Cannot open file: it does not appear to be a valid archive”, it’s time to use Actual Zip Repair, a fast and efficient utility, which can handle any corrupted zip file, extracting files from a damaged zip archive and saving any undamaged files. What’s more, with Actual Zip Repair you can restore not only zip files, but also self-extracting files.

In case of a zip file damage, CRC (the cyclic redundancy check) makes zip archive inaccessible, and the files extraction is impossible. Actual Zip Repair was specially developed for overcoming CRC failures. The utility scans the corrupted zip archive and compares its current and original CRC values. Then the program repairs zip file structure and recovers data within. It is very important, that Actual Zip Repair enables you to fix zip files of any size, even more than 4 Gig. Often, we keep a lot of photos or a huge amount of important information from your PC is compressed into one giant zip file. In such a case, you may have problems with unpacking it with the built-in zip-program in Windows XP. Actual Zip Repair has a powerful engine, enabling you to fix efficiently not only small 64 bit files but also large archives as well. Remarkably, Actual Zip Repair can also process multiple archives simultaneously and supports spanned and encrypted zip files.

For your convenience, Actual Zip Repair allows creating a repaired zip file or just extracting files from a damaged zip archive into a specified location on your PC. In just a few clicks, you locate the zip files for recovery and specify required settings for the output presets, and that is all that you have to do, the other things will be done automatically. Actual Zip Repair is extremely easy to handle, even non-experienced PC user can use it, as no special skills or knowledge is required. The clear and user-friendly interface helps a great deal, making the process of zip files repairing a simple and satisfying task.

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Key features of Fresh Download:

- Turbo charges downloading files in FTP, HTTP and HTTPS protocols using your current internet connection (dial-up, cable, DSL / ADSL, satellite, T1, etc).
- Pause and resume broken downloads, recovers from a dropped Internet connection.
- Multiple connections download manager. To get the highest possible speed, this powerful tool uses 4 simultaneous connections (up to 8 connections) for the same file, while many other similar software only support single connection download. Based on user reports, this method may speed up your downloads by up to 400%.
- Easy integration into Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firebird and Firefox, Netscape Communicator, Opera, Avant Browser, Crazy Browser, Maxthon / MyIE2, Slim Browser, in any Windows operating system (95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, and XP). Simply grabs any URL from these popular browsers and Fresh Download will take over.
- Schedule your downloads for low traffic periods.
- Clipboard monitoring and drag & drop features. Easily grabs any URL from any applications.
- Antivirus support. Scan downloaded files from any viruses using your current antivirus software.
- Ability to download from password protected sites, in both HTTP and FTP protocols.
- Proxy Server support in both HTTP and FTP protocols.
- Plus now it has a built-in Zip file extractor.

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