Supported operating systems
WinZip Self-Extractor 4.0 supports Microsoft Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP.
Extraction limitations
WinZip Self-Extractor 4.0 cannot create self-extracting Zip files from Zip files that contain:
- bzip2 compression
- xz compression
- mp3 compression
- Zip64 extended Zip file format
- Files in the Zip file that were larger than 4gb (pre-zipped)
- Zip files themselves that are greater than 4gb in size
- Zip files that contain more than 65,535 files
- Windows does not support (is unable to use) executable files larger than 2gb.
- WinZip Self-Extractor 4.0 supports custom icons, as listed in the chart below.
Technical details: WinZip Self-Extractor will copy the pixel images from the specified icon file.
Supported formats
|
Pixel Size |
Color Depth |
|---|---|
| 16x16 | 4-bit |
| 8-bit | |
| 32-bit alpha-blended | |
| 32x32 | 4-bit |
| 8-bit | |
| 32-bit alpha-blended | |
| 48x48 | 4-bit |
| 8-bit | |
| 32-bit alpha-blended | |
| 96x96 | 32-bit alpha-blended |
| 128x128 | 32-bit alpha-blended |
| 256x256 | 32-bit alpha-blended |
| Note: When Self-Extractor is run under Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, the last 3 icon formats are not supported. |
Make sure that the icon images you include in your icon file conform to the image sizes and color densities specified above. Non-conforming icons files will be ignored and WinZip Self-Extractor will provide a default set of icons.
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