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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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"This product is made by a single professional"
Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 4.20
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this is the main product of his life. So thanks you Eugene!
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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, 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
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I would recommend this to everyone that works with .RAR files.
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I would recommend this to everyone that works with .RAR files.
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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
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Repaired Invalid File That WinZip Could Not Open
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Repaired Invalid File That WinZip Could Not Open
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Repaired Invalid File That WinZip Could Not Open
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"trully outstanding"
Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 4.20
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Been using it for about 5 years now. The only program I've never met a better replacement. Good job. You guys rock!
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non comes to mind
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"This product is made by a single professional"
Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 4.20
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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
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This product is made by a single professional
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"works great, no fuss, no mess"
Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 4.20
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very easy to use!
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I couldn't find anything wrong with this program!
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I would recommend this to everyone that works with .RAR files.
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"Which registered my file by just completing a simple"
Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 4.20
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This product is made by a single professional, this is the main product of his life. So thanks you Eugene!
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It just keeps working for free you don't need to sign up for any surveys.
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Beware of the survey links posted below they sound like phishing sites, you don't need those to use the program !!!!
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"Spectacular! Its virtually free!"
Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 4.20
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I installed it once and I kept on using it for three years!
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Ugly interface..
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The product is good.. I dont mind using the trial version forever.. It doesnt seem to bother me...
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Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 4.20
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This product is a very useful and interesting
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"Very easy to use and work with latest version."
Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 4.20
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I also upgrade it free of coast from downloadsafe, Which registered my file by just completing a simple survey.
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Thank you for making this product fast and not bloated for so many years.. Keep up a good work
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Thank you for making this product fast and not bloated for so many years.. Keep up a good work
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