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File Archive is a small-sized software tool that can be used in order to aid people in archiving any kind of file or directory with ease, as well as view history.

The installation process is a piece of cake and is over in a jiffy, while the interface can only be described as plain and minimal. It creates an entry in the default Windows context menu, more exactly the “Send to” category and that is the only way you can interact with it.

As a result, it becomes pretty obvious that anybody can learn how to properly use File Archive, regardless of their previous experience with the IT world.

As stated above, this utility helps you compress any kind of documents and folders with ease. All you have to do is simply right-click the item you want to process and select the “FileArchive-Archive” entry and input a custom label. In just a few moments, your items are going to be automatically packed into an ARCHIVE extension to the desktop.

Another options is present in the context menu, which enables you to view the archive history in a dedicated window. Items are going to be listed along with time at which they were created, label and full filename.

It is possible to copy a selected pack’s full path to the Clipboard, open it in Windows File Explorer or recover it with just a click of the button. No other noteworthy options are incorporated.

To wrap it up, File Archive is a pretty decent piece of software when it comes to archiving items. The interface is suitable to all types of users, the response time is good and the results are quite good. The system’s performance is not going to be hindered and our tests did not reveal any crashes or freezes in our tests. However, support for multiple file extensions and a decompression feature would have been nice additions to it.