CNET Editors' review
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 definitely 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, which can all be customized by downloading themes from the company's Web site. 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.
In our performance tests, both creating and unpacking archives was blazingly fast. Compression ratios varied depending on file type, but in general seemed on par with or slightly better than other archiving programs. Overall, WinRAR is a winner because of its speed, simple interface, flexibility with file formats, and powerful advanced features.
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 4.10 can create ZIP archives of practically any size; can create multivolume ZIP archives, which are also known as split ZIP files; adds the high precision file time support in ZIP archives; adds support for Unicode names stored in ZIP extra field data; supports "Synchronize archive contents" option; includes modifications of switch -ag behavior; includes changes in volume size input field and in "Predefined sizes" in "Define volume sizes" dialog; features new "Wipe files if password is ... See all new features
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All versions:
4.4 starsout of 115 votes
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Current version:
4.2 starsout of 4 votes
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"Din't use this one as found one with better functions"
Version: WinRAR (64-bit) 4.10
Pros
Free yet want to upgrade you
Cons
Try to sell upgrade
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"does what it does best"
Version: WinRAR (64-bit) 4.10
Pros
quick and easy
Cons
sometimes locksup
Summary
excellent product
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"No complaints does what its supposed to"
Version: WinRAR (64-bit) 4.10
Pros
no issues thus far
Cons
none to report
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"WinRar x86 works flawlessly. x64 is icing on the cake!"
Version: WinRAR (64-bit) 4.10
Pros
Does what its supposed to. Supports all the best compression standards and is lightning fast at compressing and uncompressing. Its also rock stable. I've never had a single crash or error.
Cons
I think the official WinRar logo/icon is due for an update. It still looks a bit "Windows 98ish" (I'm really nitpicking here!)
Summary
Download it. Use it. Buy it. Love it.
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