FathZIP is a high-performance data compression COM component for Windows developers. It provides your applications with the capability to create and manipulate industry-standard zip files. It is a fully compilant COM/ActiveX control you can use in any ActiveX / COM Windows development tools. It includes: Visual Basic, MS Access, MS Visual C++, ASP, Windows scripting, etc. By using few simple methods you can get info about files in archive, create ZIP archives, compress, extract or remove files from them, make self-extracting archives, read/write archives that span multiple disks, or compress data from/to memory. Everything with optional file encryption.