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- Price: Free to try (40-day trial); $29.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7
- Date added: March 14, 2010
- Total Downloads: 93,133,457
- Downloads last week: 429,459
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1472 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 / 64-bit Windows version of RAR Archiver, the powerful archiver and archive manager. WinRAR's main features are very strong general and multimedia compression, solid compression, archive protection from damage, processing of ZIP and other non-RAR archives, scanning archives for viruses, programmable self-extracting archives(SFX), authenticity verification, NTFS and Unicode support, strong AES encryption, support of multivolume archives, command line and graphical interface, drag-and-drop facility, wizard interface, theme support, folder tree panel, multithread support and Windows x64 shell integration. WinRAR provides complete support for RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack and convert CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, Z, 7-Zip archives. WinRAR is available in over 40 languages.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.93 fixes the bug in WinRAR 3.92 -xd:\path\folder switch could also exclude folders, which path does not match the path specified in the switch and only the folder name is the same as specified.
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- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 1472 votes
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Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 3.93
"Updated and still is the best"
Pros: Fast and functional
Cons: none ever found
Summary: Works fine without even any hiccups
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Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 3.93
Pros: never had a problem with it + lots of functions - archive repair,...
Cons: .........price
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Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 3.93
Pros: good speed
Cons: at present not known
Summary: liked
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Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 3.93
"rar and zip archive repair,unicode support."
Pros: It's been pointed out that you can get the same features in freeware archive utilities,so why pay?
Winrar can repair damaged rar and zip archives. This is not offered in freeware archivers.
Can handle Unicode foreign language file and pathnames.Cons: None,but I would like zip as an option in the context menu.
Summary: I bought Winrar when I had a few rar archives that would not open. Winrar's repair function fixed the problem. It turned out one bad file had been the problem but the others were fine. Winrar fixes both rar and zip files.
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Version: WinRAR (32-bit) 3.93
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Cons: good good good
Summary: good
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