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Installation

What to unpack, what to run, and what happens on first start.

Requirements

Item Value

Operating system Windows 10 or 11

Architecture 64-bit (win64 build)

Extra software None needed: the zpaqfranz and 7-Zip engines ship inside the build

Item	Value
Operating system	Windows 10 or 11
Architecture	64-bit (win64 build)
Extra software	None needed: the `zpaqfranz` and 7-Zip engines ship inside the build

Installing

There is nothing to install: this is a ready-to-run build.

Unpack rizpaq-2.0.0-win64.zip into any folder — for example C:\Rizpaq, or a folder on a USB drive.
Open the resulting Rizpaq folder and run Rizpaq.exe.

Do not move the folder afterwards if portable mode is on

In portable mode settings are kept next to the program, so moving the folder means setting everything up again. Normal mode does not care where the folder lives: settings are stored in your user profile.

What is inside the build

Path What it is

Rizpaq\Rizpaq.exe The program

Rizpaq\_internal\zpaqfranz.exe The zpaq archive engine

Rizpaq\_internal\7z.exe, 7z.dll The engine for ZIP, 7z and RAR

Rizpaq\_internal\locales\ Interface translations

Rizpaq\_internal\help\ This user guide, HTML files

Path	What it is
`Rizpaq\Rizpaq.exe`	The program
`Rizpaq\_internal\zpaqfranz.exe`	The zpaq archive engine
`Rizpaq\_internal\7z.exe`, `7z.dll`	The engine for ZIP, 7z and RAR
`Rizpaq\_internal\locales\`	Interface translations
`Rizpaq\_internal\help\`	This user guide, HTML files

None of this needs touching. Do not rename or delete _internal: the program looks for the engines inside it.

First start

On first run the program:

detects the interface language from the system language;
creates a settings file in your user profile;
checks that the engines start, and asks for a path if they do not;
asks which profile to use — Archive or Backup. See the chapter Two profiles for details.

The tree of drives appears on the left (in the Archive profile) or the list of tasks (in the Backup profile). To open an archive, double-click it in the tree or use File → Open Archive… (Ctrl+O).

Engine not found

If the engine will not start, the program still works as a file manager: drives, folders, files and renaming all remain available. To get archives back, point it at the engine: Settings → Path to zpaqfranz… or Settings → Path to 7-Zip….

Portable mode

To keep settings next to the program — on a USB drive or a shared network folder, for example — create an empty file named portable.txt next to Rizpaq.exe. A file named portable with no extension works too.

After that, settings, language, theme, profile and window size are stored beside the program rather than in your user profile, and can be carried to another computer together with the folder.

Mode Path

Normal %APPDATA%\Rizpaq\zpaq_gui.json

Portable Next to Rizpaq.exe

Mode	Path
Normal	`%APPDATA%\Rizpaq\zpaq_gui.json`
Portable	Next to `Rizpaq.exe`

Help

This guide is built into the program. The item Help → User Guide… opens it in your default browser. It works without the internet: the files sit next to the program in _internal\help\.

The same guide is available online at rizpaq.ru/help/ — in case the program is installed on a machine without the local copy.