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- Price: Free to try (40-day trial); $29.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
- Date added: December 20, 2009
- Total Downloads: 90,734,921
- Downloads last week: 424,818
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1439 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on November 08, 2008
There are plenty of solid compression utilities to choose from, but this shareware powerhouse offers the features and ease of use that place it at the top of the compression category. WinRAR is easy to use, lightweight, and flexible.
An intuitive interface lets you mouse over icons to see their functions, and if you don't like their candy-coated appearance, you can always choose from several themes at the developer's site. The Folder Tree Panel makes sifting through your directories to find files easier than ever. But once you see the size savings of a RAR archive, with a compression ratio of 8 percent to 15 percent better than the ZIP format, you'll understand why so many users and developers are making the switch from other apps. With virus scans now integrated and minor interface tweaks for Vista, only the slightly slower decompression speed holds the app back.
Beyond its good looks and right-click readiness for basic compression and unzipping, WinRAR offers unpacking support for a large number of archive formats, including TAR, ACE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, and ZIP. WinRAR's advanced features are icing on the cake, with Unicode support for international formatting, embedded file comments, damaged archive repair, archive locking, self-extracting archives, and easy encryption. There's also the option to automatically delete temporary files and just-archived files. Anyone seeking an all-in-one archiving solution would be remiss to not check out WinRAR.
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Publisher's description
From RARLAB :WinRAR is a 32-bit / 64-bit Windows version of RAR Archiver, the powerful archiver and archive manager. WinRAR's main features are very strong general and multimedia compression, solid compression, archive protection from damage, processing of ZIP and other non-RAR archives, scanning archives for viruses, programmable self-extracting archives(SFX), authenticity verification, NTFS and Unicode support, strong AES encryption, support of multivolume archives, command line and graphical interface, drag-and-drop facility, wizard interface, theme support, folder tree panel, multithread support and Windows x64 shell integration. WinRAR provides complete support for RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack and convert CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, Z, 7-Zip archives. WinRAR is available in over 40 languages.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.91 fixes a bug in processing of malformed ZIP archives, adds decompression of LZMA2 7z archives.
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- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 1439 votes
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Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 3.91
Pros: it is free, easy and nice. it can be much better that winzipp!
Cons: nothing cons - the programme is fine.
Summary: it is lovely and free
thanks
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Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 3.91
Pros: Can change any file type.
Cons: Nothing at all.
Summary: Great Product.
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Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 3.91
Pros: good in all package
Cons: excelent program and easy to operation
Summary: good,excelent and easy of operation, plus safe results
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Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 3.91
Pros: I've never encountered corrupt archives.
Manages many different formats.
Very good compression.
Good integration with filemanager's context menus.
Easy to split archive into specified sizes.Cons: The price for good compression is slightly slower compression-speed.
The interface requires, maybe, more time to get used to than e.g. winzip.
Not the same user base as the zip-format (i.e. winzip or winxp compressed folders).Summary: If you want to create an archive that should stand the time - use winrar. It's very solid.
It's a product to trust. -
Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 3.91
Pros: dificult to use at first
Cons: first time takes a while
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