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There are plenty of solid compression utilities to choose from, but this shareware powerhouse offers the features and ease of use that might place it at the top of its 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, a recent addition to the interface, makes sifting through your directories to find files for archiving 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 compression apps. You might even be prepared to forgive the slightly slower decompression speeds and lack of integrated virus protection.
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 ACE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, and ZIP. WinRAR's advanced features are icing on the cake, with Unicode support for international formatting, embedded file comments, repair of damaged archives, archive locking, self-extracting archives, and easy encryption. Anyone seeking an all-in-one archiving solution would be remiss to not evaluate WinRAR.
Publisher's Description
From RARLAB:
WinRAR is a 32-bit Windows version of RAR Archiver, an archiver and archive manager. RAR files can usually compress content by 8 percent to 15 percent more than ZIP files can. WinRAR's main features include strong general and multimedia compression, the ability to process non-RAR archive formats, ZIP compression and decompression, support for long filenames, programmable self-extracting archives (SFX), repair of damaged archives, authenticity verification, embedded file comments, and encryption. Unicode is supported in archive filenames, allowing non-English filenames to be handled painlessly. You can manipulate the parameters of many archives at once and view a volume sequence as a single archive. WinRAR can convert other archive formats to RAR and search for specified text and files in archives.
Version 3.61 is a bug fixing release.
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4.2 starsout of 1,927 votes
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Current version:
4.4 starsout of 79 votes
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"the compression is great, it doesn't eat up a lot of bytes in application"
Version: WinRAR 3.61
Pros
it fast compression and fast extract
Cons
i haven't tried keeping a password, can a password be applied to it?
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"was good"
Version: WinRAR 3.61
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it was ok to install
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"I can not work without it"
Version: WinRAR 3.61
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Very simple ,not complicated like other same software
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"this is the must have product"
Version: WinRAR 3.61
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I like all
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"Best I've used."
Version: WinRAR 3.61
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I've been using WinRar for a few years now and I don't think I've been disappointed by one aspect.
WinRar has full support for ZIP and RAR archives as well as unpacking support for some of the more less common archive formats such as CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7z and Z.
WinRar also comes with an SFX creator which allows the user to create a self-unpacking EXE program from your RAR or ZIP file just in case those relatives you're emailing don't have WinRar.
The SFX creator also has some great advanced features that programmers may enjoy for creating simple installers for their programs.
Packing and unpacking times are faster than other programs I've used. Files that compress easily like wav or text files of any kind will pack quite quickly. Files that don't compress very much tend to take longer at the same settings.
For Example on a 2gHz AMD Sempron on the "Best" compression setting:
100mb WAV file compresses to 60mb in 30 seconds
100mb PSD (Photoshop) file compresses to 90mb in 3 minutes.
WinRar also has support for themes. What I find interesting is that when you change the theme, it also changes the default icon for an archive files in Windows. A plus since I think the book icon is kind of ugly.
It supports 128-bit AES encryption for RAR files and ZIP's proprietary, but less secure, encryption for ZIP files.
Cons
WinRar is shareware. After the 40 day trial period there is a nag screen you have to click on every time you open the program but it maintains full functionality. Annoying, but if I weren't a broke college student I'd pay for it.
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"i must try it before"
Version: WinRAR 3.61
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i must try it
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i must try it
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"Better than most other Archiver programs."
Version: WinRAR 3.61
Pros
Does everything WinZip/PK Zip/etc does, and does it better. Multimedia compression, ISO decompression, zip/rar/ace...etc. Background feature is really nice.
Cons
Only improvement I think this program can do is a Wizard mode for people who are new to this program. Nag screen is duable, it is afterall a shareware.
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"very usefuul"
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"I like it very much"
Version: WinRAR 3.61
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It's the best windows based archiver. The size of archives doesn't have any limits, it can be up to 9 petabytes. there are a lot of good features.
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can't see anything
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"works like a charm"
Version: WinRAR 3.61
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Simply - it does what it needs to do - If my wife could only follow this rule........
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