XAce Plus

XAce Plus is an archive extraction tool that supports many popular archive formats and provides a pleasant interface to interact with its users.
The program can handle ACE, ARC, ARJ, CAB, LZH, LHA, JAR, RAR, ZIP and SFX files, but it’s important to note that it offers only extraction tools and no compression engine. In plain English, XAce Plus can only extract files so no, it doesn’t create archives at all.
The interface is nothing special, but it lets you open an archive and see its content, along with information about each archived file. You can see the full name, modified date, original and compressed size and attributes, with a dedicated field to pick the destination folder.
The options menu is rather minimal and comes with options concerning four of the supported archive formats, such as ACE, ZIP, RAR and CAB. Each of these can be easily managed through Windows Context Menu entries, but administrator privileges are needed for this modification.
XAce Plus usually works very fast and doesn’t affect system performance, although we’ve noticed a moderate usage during our test when handling larger archives.
But it still works flawlessly on all Windows flavors, so it can be safely used on both older and newer workstations.
As a conclusion, XAce Plus is a handy file extraction tool that does what it says, while it also offers simple options for the Windows Context Menu. It is easy to use and remained stable during our test when working with both smaller and larger archives.