WinRAR Features

Developer:	RARLAB
License:	Shareware / Free to try
User Rating:	(5 votes)
Official Website:	www.rarlab.com
Platform:	Windows, Mac, Linux, Pocket PC

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WinRAR Review

WinRAR is one of the most popular file compression software, aka a powerful archive manager. WinRAR is a product of RARLAB. It can backup user’s data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.

WinRAR is available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Pocket PC. Trial version is available to download at this file compression software website.

WinRAR Highlight Features:

• Lets user compress files by making smaller archives, saving disk space and transmission costs
• Supports many files most of popular formats like: RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives.
• Comes with a graphic interactive interface utilizing mouse and menus as well as the command line interface.
• The “Wizard” mode feature allows instant access to the basic archiving functions. This avoids confusion in the early stages of use.
• Offers the industry strength archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a key of 128 bits.
• Can support files and archive up to 8,589 billion gigabytes in size.
• The number of archived files is, for all practical purposes, unlimited.
• User can create self-extracting and multivolume archives.
• The recovery record and recovery volume feature allows user to reconstruct even physically damaged archives.

Supported File Formats:

WinRAR is able to unpack the following popular format.

• RAR
• ZIP
• CAB
• ARJ
• LZH
• TAR
• GZ and TAR.GZ
• BZ2 and TAR.BZ2
• ACE
• UUE
• JAR (Java Archive)
• ISO (ISO9660 – CD image)
• 7Z
• Z (Unix compress)

Supported Languages:

• Albanian, Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese Brazilian, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Valencian.

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