Changelog

EasyUnZip for Windows changelog

Release notes for the ZIP and RAR extractor for Windows. EasyUnZip shipped in August 2026; the current release is 0.2.0.

0.2.0 · 20 October 2026

Microsoft Store distribution with safer encrypted-archive failures.

• EasyUnZip is available through the Microsoft Store. The Store handles installation and updates.
• An incorrect password for an encrypted archive now fails before extraction writes files to the destination.

0.1.2 · 18 September 2026

EasyUnZip now costs $9.99. Nothing else changed.

• The price is $9.99, up from $3. It is still one payment, still covers 3 PCs, and still never renews. A key bought at the old price is unaffected and always will be - a licence does not get cheaper or dearer after it is issued.
• The trial is unchanged: 14 days, everything working, no card and no account.
• The app itself is the 0.1.1 build. This release exists so the panel, the trial reminders and the page quote the same number.

0.1.1 · 15 August 2026

Three ways the panel could stop responding, all fixed.

• The panel no longer freezes while it waits. Licence checks, archive listing and reading the File Explorer selection ran on the thread that draws the window, so a slow network or an Explorer window pointed at a dead drive left EasyUnZip permanently not responding. They now run off it, and the Explorer bridge gives up rather than waiting forever.
• The Buy button works. It shelled out through PowerShell and waited for it, which fails silently on PCs where PowerShell is not allowed to start a browser. It now opens the address directly, and says so plainly when Windows still refuses.
• A failed start explains itself. The app has no console, so an error during startup closed the process with no window and no message. It now shows what went wrong, and names WebView2 when that is the missing piece - which it is on LTSC and freshly imaged Windows 10.

0.1.0 · 13 August 2026

The first public release.

• Tray-resident app with a global hotkey (Alt+E by default, configurable) that opens a floating panel over whatever is selected in File Explorer.
• ZIP and RAR extraction, performed locally, using the bundled 7-Zip engine.
• Destinations per job: beside the archive, into a subfolder named after it, or any folder you choose - and per-archive routing when several are selected.
• Extension filter, so a single file type can be taken out of an archive full of everything.
• Password-protected archives, with the password held in memory for the session only.
• Conflict policy chosen once per job: overwrite, skip or keep both.
• Automatic recovery from long paths, filenames Windows will not accept, and files another program is holding open.
• 14-day trial, then a one-time key that activates up to 3 PCs.

How updates reach you

EasyUnZip has no background updater. Install and update it through the Microsoft Store when you choose; your settings and licence survive Store updates.

Updates are included in the price - there is no paid upgrade waiting at 1.0. If a release ever needs you to do something, it will say so here first.