StuffIt Deluxe 2009 Windows

Other products by Smith Micro Software Inc.

Product Features

• Compress and Expand -
• NEW! Duplicate Folding for smaller archives
• NEW! Expand 7Zip archives
• NEW! Expand segmented Zip archives
• NEW! Create EXE archives with remote payload

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.1 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001PKTZJQ
• Item model number: WSD2009BX2
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 31, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,914 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Product Description

File Compression

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Worked fine for me., September 4, 2009

By	DISenchanted (NM USA -Land of DISenchantment) - See all my reviews

This software worked fine for me.

I run 3 flavors of XP:

1. XP Home

2. XP Media center edition

3. XP Pro

I did not buy this as a standalone product.
It came bundled with 24 other full version apps in the package made by PC Treasures.
PCWorks Suite Pro 2009 v2 [also sold here on amazon].

I haven't done much with stuff it since I used it on a mac, years ago.

This is the first time I used it on a windows pc.

1.0 out of 5 stars Unstable on Vista 64, August 9, 2009

By	N. Madani - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have used StuffIt since version 3 on Mac and its first version to be released for Windows. Version 12 was a significant setback as far as interface design and usability were concerned. The 2009 version is practically unusable on Vista 64. I purchased the 2009 upgrade and returned it as Vista 64 was not supported. Later, Stuffit released a Vista 64 shell extension patch and I obtained the software again as a free promotional bundle with another product. I intstalled the program without any errors, including the plugins and applied the shell extension patch from [...].

The Vista 64 shell extension caused the system to reproducibly freeze completely (not even the mouse cursor would move), and the StuffIt plugins for MS Office and PhotoShop CS4 caused serious problems with all applications. The application interface itself had serious flaws. For example it crashed when creating folders in its file dialogs.

As a general consideration, StuffIt's .sit and .sitx compression formats are proprietary and you will be stuck with StuffIt if you use them to archive your data. As a long-term user, I strongly discourage anyone from using StuffIt or any of its proprietary compression formats. You are better off using any of the free and open-source formats. 7-zip has served me well, is free, open-source and works without any problems [...]. There are other free and commercial options out there that are stable and provide better support. Considering the decreasing costs of storage and bandwidth, any small size advantage StuffIt might provide (and that is not a given) would not be worth its serious flaws and proprietary nature.