Stealing the crown from WinZip, the previously undisputed king of file compression apps, WinRAR is a must-have in any modern-day PC toolkit. The application not only includes support for extracting virtually any kind of file compression format, it also boasts a no-nonsense approach to reducing file sizes.

Some will argue that the application isn�t as quick as WinZip at compressing files. However, for the small lag in time difference, you end up with a significantly smaller archived file at the end of the process with WinRAR. What�s more, the application allows you to save files into both ZIP and RAR formats, with a multitude of options for speeding up compression times, or reducing file sizes at the expense of a few more seconds.

Although many newcomers might be put off by the sheer range of features and settings within the program, the interface doesn�t take long to get accustomed to, and if you�re still really stuck there�s a simple wizard-based system that walks you through the process of extracting or compressing. All this adds up to make WinRAR a dependable utility that performs better than any other tool in its class.


Languages:

English


WinRAR supports the following formats:

RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, Z, 7-Zip


Recent changes in WinRAR:

    * Added support for ZIP archives containing Unicode file names in UTF-8 format.
    * Added decompression support for WinZip AES encrypted ZIP archives.
    * Improved Unicode support for RAR and ZIP archive names.
    * "Ask before overwrite" and "Skip existing files" update modes are now available in archiving dialog
    * New "Add to context menu" option in "Profile parameters" dialog.
    * New -cp switch allows to select a compression profile in command line mode.
    * New "Options" page of archiving dialog contains the group of settings modifying the behavior of "Delete files after archiving" option from "General" page.
    * WinRAR "Extraction path and options" dialog is now resizable.
    * New "Update" SFX script command and "Update mode" group of options in "Update" page of "Advanced SFX options" dialog.
    * SFX script "Shortcut" command and "Add shortcut..." command in "Advanced SFX options" dialog now allow to specify an icon file containing an icon associated with shortcut.
    * New "Wipe temporary files" option in "Settings/Security" dialog provides more secure, though slower, way to delete temporary WinRAR files.
    * WinRAR and RAR display the total progress bar when unpacking a multivolume RAR archive if all volumes are present in the same folder.
    * WinRAR and RAR automatically expand names of environment variables in list files.
    * Added support of TAR archives with non-zero "extra field" data.
    * Added support of TAR archives, which does not contain the end of archive entry consisting of 512 zero bytes.
    * Improved Unicode support when dragging files from WinRAR window.
    * Shift+Tab key combination can be used in main WinRAR window to
    * switch the input focus between interface elements (files, comment,
    * tree, address) in reverse order.
    * Corrected a possible WinRAR crash when opening truncated UDF ISO files.



OS requirements for WinRAR:

    * OS: Win95/98/98SE/Me/2000/NT/XP