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CNET Editors' review
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 3.62 is a security update.
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"Great tool"
Version: WinRAR 3.62
Pros
When people upload files in a .rar format, no need to panic! I love how easy the software was to install. I didn't even have to restart
Cons
None that I can think of. It handles all the related files types that I can think of.
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"Works OK, but**"
Version: WinRAR 3.62
Pros
It is a good, solid archiving tool, but**
Cons
** I'm not entirely sure what is going to happen after 40 days. I'd rather use one of the free archivers, but none I've found open multivolume *.rar files.
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"It's Pretty Good"
Version: WinRAR 3.62
Pros
It has great use as a compressor and for opening files that it requires. Although the files that require it are pretty rare.
Cons
Unless you REALLY have to use this, I wouldn't suggest paying that much money for this program. Also, the nagging screen is absolutely annoying and will pop up EVERY TIME you use WinRar.
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"Awsome!"
Version: WinRAR 3.62
Pros
I rarely take the time to write reviews. This software is definately worth using. Much better than the standard compression utility that everyone uses (I don't mention the name).
I really like the compression that you get and how easy this is to use. Its so easy that my parents can use it :)
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"The best of the best"
Version: WinRAR 3.62
Pros
As always, the leader of the pack, matched by none, surpassed by none.
Cons
Not free, but it's trial is pretty generous.
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"functional, does what it claims to do"
Version: WinRAR 3.62
Pros
Unpacked my RAR files effectively
Cons
Not very user friendly, had to look up a guide on the net
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"Good power tool!"
Version: WinRAR 3.62
Pros
Works with almost all formats!
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"Very Good Unzip tool"
Version: WinRAR 3.62
Pros
It's able to do the job as described with no problems and it a very affective tool for decompressing pretty much any file.
Cons
It should cost less because of the demand for an archiver for RAR file. WinZip pretty much does the job unless you need to decompress an RAR file, which is really rare.
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"best archiving utility out there"
Version: WinRAR 3.62
Pros
beats any other utility. also very easy to use.
Cons
could use a little spit and shine
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"The only compression/decompression you'll ever need."
Version: WinRAR 3.62
Pros
For all my compression/encryption/viewing and a multitude of other daily tech essentials this product has exceeded my expectations even on price. Terrific job guys, keep it up!
Cons
I'm still looking but cannot find...
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