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 makes sifting through your directories to find files 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 apps. With virus scans now integrated and minor interface tweaks for Vista, only the slightly slower decompression speed holds the app back.
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, damaged archive repair, archive locking, self-extracting archives, and easy encryption. Anyone seeking an all-in-one archiving solution would be remiss to not check out WinRAR.
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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 3.71 corrects several bugs and improves processing of corrupt RAR archives.
What's new in this version: Version 3.71 corrects several bugs and improves processing of corrupt RAR archives.
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All versions:
4.2 starsout of 1,861 votes
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Current version:
4.3 starsout of 321 votes
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"i realy like this sight"
Version: WinRAR 3.71
Pros
its fast and hope i could see my photos
Cons
every thing
Summary
i like that u let me upgrade
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"Its neato..."
Version: WinRAR 3.71
Pros
Its fast and is pretty good at unzipping rar files, its a bit better then winzip
Cons
its always asking me for upgrades but so did winzip so yeah...
Summary
its pretty good if you download aot on your pc but i would recommend downloading both winzip and winrar both winzip and winrar
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"its the best program ever"
Version: WinRAR 3.71
Pros
its very useful
Cons
its hard to download a program
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"this is very good and useful software"
Version: WinRAR 3.71
Pros
i like to see clipings in this files and it will be good
Cons
i am liking because it is very nice and advanced. it will be use full to every one
Summary
hai what a pitty i like this very much i can say thsi much only
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"very very good"
Version: WinRAR 3.71
Pros
very very good
Cons
very very good
Summary
very very good
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"Very easy to use with beautiful interface."
Version: WinRAR 3.71
Pros
It was very helpful for migrating from a very old computer and back up. Very easy instructions.
Cons
It cost $38.99 with the CD.
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"excellent program, easy to use"
Version: WinRAR 3.71
Pros
with this program I am able to open files that were unaccessable previously
Cons
nothing so far
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"A great archiving program"
Version: WinRAR 3.71
Pros
Easy to use.
Cons
The nag to register.
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"Works as should"
Version: WinRAR 3.71
Pros
Good working programm
Cons
No cons at all
Summary
Fine working programm.
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"Help crash my PC I do a recovery and lost everything."
Version: WinRAR 3.71
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nothing to say
Cons
As I said before, my PC crash. The servicenter who repair it have to do a recovery. I lost 2 years of personal data, music and games.
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nothing
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