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WinRAR is a lightweight, flexible, and easy-to-use archiving utility that can unpack most archive formats, as well as compress to both RAR and ZIP. Free to try for 40 days ($29 for single license), WinRAR is a top dog in the compression category.
WinRAR's interface is about as simple as it gets. Start creating (or add to) an archive by dragging and dropping your files into the interface or by browsing through the Folder Tree side panel (when enabled). From there, the most common functions are laid out in the form of colorful, mostly intuitive icons along the top, which can all be customized by downloading themes from the company's Web site. You can Add files to, Extract, Test, Delete, or even Repair archives right from the main interface. Drop-down menus house the program's more advanced features, including self-extracting archives, archive locking, benchmarking, and autodeletion of temp files.
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With WinRAR, both creating and unpacking archives is blazingly fast. And according to WinRAR's developers, the most recent version of the program takes advantage of multicore processors to achieve even faster compressions rates, depending on your hardware profile. It is worth noting, however, that these speed boosts do use up a significant chunk of RAM (approximately 120 MB). Compression ratios vary depending on file type, but in general seem on par with or better than other archiving programs.
Overall, WinRAR is a winner because of its speed, simple interface, flexibility with file formats, and powerful advanced features. If you're looking for a one-stop archiving shop, look no further.
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 4.20 significantly improves compression and decompression speed; RAR general compression algorithm is optimized for better utilization of several processor cores. While some speed gain is possible even in single processor mode, best results are achieved in multi-core environment.
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"Very reliable"
Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 4.20
Pros
This is what I use and purchased it.
Cons
None. If you don't want the popups you can buy, not everything is free in this world. That's why it is called trial.
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"this is the main product of his life."
Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 4.20
Pros
this is the main product of his life. So thanks you Eugene!
Cons
this is the main product of his life. So thanks you Eugene!
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this is the main product of his life. So thanks you Eugene!
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"Easy to use and fast"
Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 4.20
Pros
This is easy to use and it is very fast. I not seeing any problems on how it functions.
Cons
Only 40 day trial and there are lots of popups after! :(
Summary
Overall this is very good and I now use it often. ;)
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"Works great"
Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 4.20
Pros
Its virtually free! Works great with any filetyp!!
Cons
Nothing! I couldn't find anything.
Summary
Works great with any filetyp. I thinks its faster than Winzip...
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"This product is made by a single professional"
Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 4.20
Pros
this is the main product of his life. So thanks you Eugene!
Cons
I couldn't find anything wrong with this program!
Summary
This product is made by a single professional, this is the main product of his life. So thanks you Eugene!
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"I also upgrade it free of coast from downloadsafe,"
Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 4.20
Pros
I also upgrade it free of coast from downloadsafe, Which registered my file by just completing a simple survey.
Cons
This product is made by a single professional, this is the main product of his life. So thanks you Eugene!
Summary
This product is made by a single professional, this is the main product of his life. So thanks you Eugene!
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"This product is made by a single professional"
Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 4.20
Pros
this is the main product of his life. So thanks you Eugene!
Cons
This product is made by a single professional, this is the main product of his life. So thanks you Eugene!
Summary
This product is made by a single professional, this is the main product of his life. So thanks you Eugene!
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"I would recommend this to everyone that works with."
Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 4.20
Pros
I would recommend this to everyone that works with .RAR files.
Cons
I would recommend this to everyone that works with .RAR files.
Summary
I would recommend this to everyone that works with .RAR files.
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"Repaired Invalid File That WinZip Could Not Open"
Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 4.20
Pros
Repaired Invalid File That WinZip Could Not Open
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Repaired Invalid File That WinZip Could Not Open
Summary
Repaired Invalid File That WinZip Could Not Open
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"trully outstanding"
Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 4.20
Pros
Been using it for about 5 years now. The only program I've never met a better replacement. Good job. You guys rock!
Cons
non comes to mind
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