In many situations you would need to unzip a lot of zip or archive files in one shot and that in Individual folders. This is not a tough job and here is how you can do how in various zipping solutions.

Winrar :

Just Select any number of archive files and right click. Then look in the context menu which says ” Extract Each Archive to separate folders“. Clicking on which you would get each of them neatly extracted in the same folder name as the archive name. Make sure you have winrar installed for it.

Universal Extractor :

Similar to Winrar, Universal Extractor also lets you extract individual files to folders with same name. In the context menu look out for UniExtract to SubDir

Extract Now :

Extract now is an ultimate tool which is just made for extraction of multiple archive unlike the above two utility which are complete archiving utility. However if you are not heavily using extraction I would suggest use the above two options which are more then enough for you.

Coming back to Extract now, This utility rules because of the options and configurations it gives you.

• You can either extract all of them into one folder or individual folder name.
• Add archive folder structure.
• Add containing folder name.
• Also You can decide what to do after extraction is complete. You can
• Delete the archive files permanently or move to recycle bin.
• Move to another directory etc.

All this makes this program a heavy weight in extracting huge number of  archive files.  You can download it from here ( Via Nirmal) and there is beta version also availble if you would like to try.

As a conclusion, just use what suits you best. You will always find tons of features in free software but not everything is required by everybody.