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- Price: Free to try (40-day trial); $29.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: May 19, 2009
- Total Downloads: 77,119,854
- Downloads last week: 303,079
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1365 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on November 08, 2008
There are plenty of solid compression utilities to choose from, but this shareware powerhouse offers the features and ease of use that place it at the top of the compression 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 TAR, 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. There's also the option to automatically delete temporary files and just-archived files. 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 3.90 beta 2 has fixed dragging a file over an existing archive in Windows Explorer did not work for 64 bit WinRAR and ZIP encryption code was updated to include recent InfoZip fixes.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.90 beta 2 has fixed dragging a file over an existing archive in Windows Explorer did not work for 64 bit WinRAR and ZIP encryption code was updated to include recent InfoZip fixes.
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User reviews of WinRAR 3.90 beta 2
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 1365 votes
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Version: WinRAR 3.90 beta 2
"Easy to use without the ads of WinZip"
Pros: Low cost Zip file creator and unZipper
Cons: Interface is hard to fathom.
Summary: Get it, it's a KEEPER.
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Version: WinRAR 3.90 beta 2
Pros: easiness of use
Cons: none found so far
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Version: WinRAR 3.90 beta 2
Pros: All functions.
Cons: Is missing support for .7z, .zipx and some advanced functions
Summary: Is a essential software!
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Version: WinRAR 3.90 beta 2
"Where is Win64 Version?or does it not matter right now?"
Pros: Unzips my winrar files like a champ.
Cons: Just make it free with ADs running across the top bar...
Summary: Buy it or Try it. It will beat em' all. unless you're a hacker otherwise nothing will ever be good enough.
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Version: WinRAR 3.90 beta 2
"All in One Best Compression Software"
Pros: Everything, whether its formats supported, reliability, light-weight, fully integrate-able, etc.
The best thing is reliability with almost every compression format supported. You can even test after compressing & even can repair few formats.Cons: Nothing ........ absolutely Nothing
Never faced any, take my words, ANY problem with it.Summary: Don't think twice, get it & you won't need any other compression software(s) at all.
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