These instructions apply to WinZip® 11.1 & later only, and assume you are running Microsoft® Windows® 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista®, or Windows 7.
Site install instructions are also available for WinZip 11.0, WinZip 10.0 and WinZip 9.0.
Contents:
The WinZip MSI file
If you plan on purchasing a Multi-User license of WinZip, be sure to order a customized backup CD which includes a WinZip MSI adapted to contain your organization’s license file.
For information on customizing the WinZip MSI file, please refer to the Frequently Asked Question, How do I customize my WinZip MSI?
The current version and earlier versions of WinZip MSI files can be downloaded from the Alternative Download Links page.
The WinZip Multi-User Registration File: WinZip.wzmul
Customers who purchase a multi-user license will receive a unique WinZip.wzmul registration file which must be copied to a WinZip subfolder in the Windows Common AppData folder. This folder contains application data for all users. For Windows 2000 and Windows XP, a typical path for the WinZip.wzmul file is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\WinZip. For Windows Vista and Windows 7, a typical path is C:\ProgramData\WinZip. The presence of WinZip.wzmul in this folder will convert the evaluation version of WinZip to a licensed registered version.
NOTE: A WinZip multi-user license file (WinZip.wzmul) will be provided as part of a customized backup CD for your organization and will automatically be copied to the correct location during the installation process.
If you have taken on-line delivery of WinZip via the download distribution file, your WinZip.wzmul registration file will be separately provided by e-mail and will need to be copied to the WinZip folder described above, either manually or by double clicking on the WinZip.wzmul file.
What are the user requirements to install WinZip?
The initial WinZip installation must be done from an account with Administrator or Power User privileges. These privileges are required to register WinZip’s shell extension and set up WinZip’s file associations. This initial installation configures WinZip both at the machine level (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Nico Mak Computing\WinZip) and at the user level for the installing user only (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Nico Mak Computing\WinZip). Thereafter, no special privileges are required as the machine level configuration will be silently propagated to subsequent users (administrators or limited users) who run WinZip for the first time.
The default installation settings include the creation of WinZip shortcuts and a program group in the 'All Users' folder so that the icons appear on the Desktop and in the Start menu for all users of the machine.
For example, if you are using Windows XP, shortcuts will be created in these two folders:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu
and the WinZip program group will be created in:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\StartMenu\Programs
On Windows Vista and Windows 7, the Common Desktop is typically found in the C:\Users\Public folder, and the Common Start Menu (which contains the Common Programs folder) is typically found in the C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows folder
In addition, a shortcut to the WinZip Quick Pick tray icon is added to the Startup folder for all users. For example, on Windows XP, this shortcut will be added to:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\StartMenu\Programs\Startup
A typical path for the WinZip Quick Pick Shortcut on Windows Vista is:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
What methods can be used to install WinZip?
Please refer to the user requirements section above.
WinZip can be installed by a number of methods. For example, you can:
- Grant access to your custom MSI file for each user to manually install
- Create a "Software Installation" Group Policy
- Distribute WinZip via SMS (SCCM)
- Install from a command line using common msiexec.exe switches
(e.g., msiexec /I WZxxxCustom.msi /qn)
How do I customize the WinZip Installation?
Please see How do I customize my WinZip MSI file? for a more comprehensive treatment of this question. On that page a number of Property configurations are described that can affect or disable various WinZip features.
Properties within the MSI file can be superseded by including an alternate value for them on the command line. For example, without editing the MSI file you could disable the "Tip of the Day" and prevent the WinZip Desktop shortcut using a command similar to this:
msiexec /I WZxxxCustom.msi INSTALLCMD="/notip /autoinstall" ADDDESKTOPICON=0 /qn
The above command tells Windows Installer to install the application (/I), alter the INSTALLCMD property to include the "/notip" switch to prevent the "Tip of the Day" from displaying, change the ADDDESKTOPICON property to "0" in order to prevent the Desktop shortcut, and it indicates that the install should be silent (/qn).
You may also want to see Command line usage for installing with the WinZip MSI file
