If the format is supported by Universal Extractor, it will call on a third party tool from its BIN folder to extract the file. Universal extractor works by first scanning and identifying what type of file you have asked it to unpack using the TrID file identifier tool which can identify over 5,000 different file types. The program itself is a front end created in the AutoIt scripting language which calls upon a wealth of other free and open source utilities to perform the identifying and extracting of files. Universal Extractor cannot create archives though, it merely recognizes and unpacks them, so it certainly doesn’t make your current archiver redundant.

This doesn’t matter if it’s a common archive format (ZIP, RAR), an obscure archive format (KGB, SIT), an executable setup installer package, disc images, compressed help files or web pages, office formats, or even compressed mail archives. Is a tool that’s been around for a number of years and does what the name suggests identify almost any type of file and if it’s a compressed package, Universal Extractor will try to unpack it.

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