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WinRAR beta

By RARLAB Free to try

Key Details of WinRAR beta

  • Take full control over RAR/ZIP archives, along with unpacking a dozen other archive formats
  • Last updated on 10/24/19
  • There have been 0 updates within the past 6 months
  • The current version has 2 flags on VirusTotal badge_icon
This version is the beta release of WinRAR. If you are looking for the most recent stable release, see the standard WinRAR product page.

Developer's Description

By RARLAB

WinRAR beta offers 32-bit and 64-bit Windows versions of RAR Archiver, the powerful archiver and archive manager. RAR files can usually compress content 8 to 15 percent more than ZIP or ARJ files.

WinRAR's main features include strong general and multimedia compression, the ability to process non-RAR archive formats, long filename support, programmable self-extracting archives (SFX), damaged-archive repair, authenticity verification, embedded file comments, and strong AES 256-bit encryption.

Unicode is supported in archive file names, allowing non-English file names to be handled painlessly. You can manipulate the parameters of many archives at once, and view a volume sequence as a single archive. It also features extraction-only support for BZIP2 and JAR (Java ARchive). You can use full file paths in the exclude lists.

Version 3.90 beta 5 fixes the bugs "Convert" command could fail if original and resulting archives were multivolume and name of original archive included DBCS characters and WinRAR did not add "Extract to folder\" item to Windows context menus for ZIP archives if Windows Compressed Folders was active.

Full Specifications

What's new in version 5.80 beta 3

Version 5.80 beta 3:
1. "Export settings to file" command in "Options" menu saves both HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\WinRAR and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WinRAR Registry data to Settings.reg, so user defined variables in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\WinRAR\Policy are also preserved. Previously it exported only HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\WinRAR data.
2. Bugs fixed:
a) previous beta versions failed to unpack ZIP archives with mismatched order of local file records and central directory entries;
b) if we opened archive properies in Windows Explorer and selected some text on "Comment" page, selection was lost when moving the mouse cursor outside of properties dialog.

General

Release October 24, 2019
Date Added October 24, 2019
Version 5.80 beta 3

Operating Systems

Operating Systems Windows 10, Windows Vista, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP
Additional Requirements None

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Total Downloads 329,897
Downloads Last Week 43
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