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I'm using them just to show you what I searched for.) I opened my Web browser, went to the world's greatest search site - Google, of course - and typed 'StuffIt windows.' (If you do this kind of searching, remember to leave off the quotation marks. Up popped a link to the Aladdin Systems Web site. No only did Aladdin have a version of StuffIt for Windows. The one that's free does expansion, not compression.

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I have my own file-and-folder compression utilities, and they do a fine job creating ZIP files. #ALADDIN SYSTEMS STUFFIT EXPANDER ZIP#īut nothing in my arsenal of file-extraction programs would automatically extract the contents of ZIP files as they arrive, the way I could do on a Mac. So as soon as I saw that Aladdin Systems had a version of StuffIt for Windows (as well as Linux and, of course, the Mac), I downloaded it - I got it from - hoping it would do the same thing as the Mac version. I installed the program, called Aladdin Expander, and double clicked on the icon it put on my desktop. No face could have been so sullen and dejected as mine. The menu was a simple one, without the added treat I was looking for. Just before I was about to give up, I noticed a button named 'More' in the little window. It was the secret door to the real power of StuffIt.

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If you do as I recommend and install StuffIt, the greatest favor you can do for yourself is to click that little button. #ALADDIN SYSTEMS STUFFIT EXPANDER INSTALL# You'll find it this way: Open the 'View' menu, then the 'Options' menu. The click 'More.'ĭoing this reveals what Aladdin Systems apparently considers a group of secondary functions. One is called 'Watch.' It's exactly what I was hoping I'd find, and it's what makes Aladdin's StuffIt so special. Under 'Watch,' you can specify a folder that Aladdin Expander will keep track of. Ideally, you choose the folder where your downloads go.

(If you don't have a download folder, make one. Create a folder in the main area, or 'root,' of the C: drive - or the D: drive if you have two main drives - and call it 'Downloads.' The next time you download a file, make sure you RIGHT CLICK on the link so you can choose where the file goes, and navigate to the Download folder and choose it as the location. Normally, it checks every 10 minutes, but if you have a fast computer - 266 MHZ or higher - you can set Expander to check the folder more often than that.

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I've set mine to check once a minute without seeing any slowdown.Īladdin Expander, like any other Windows program, uses resources, so you might want to be cautious if your PC is running a version of Windows that has the crippling resource-memory flaw (Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me). If you have one of those versions of Windows, run Aladdin Expander only when you are about to download files. #ALADDIN SYSTEMS STUFFIT EXPANDER DOWNLOAD# If your PC is running Windows 2000, Windows NT or Windows XP, the versions of Windows that don't have the resource-memory flaw, you can put Aladdin Expander in the Startup folder (it's in the Start Menu, under Programs) and run it all the time.

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