WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. Archive file formats supported are ZIP, RAR, ACE, CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, BZ2, UUE, JAR, ISO, 7Z and Z. It is a trial download software.More details on the developer site(RarLab).

       
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Create archives or decompress files. Is an archiver for RAR and ZIP files.Was developed in 1993 by Alexander Roshal who is representing the RarLab Company (www.rarlab.com)
WinRar is different (a competitor in the same time) from WinZip ,WinAce or 7 Zip . In the same category (Compression tools) are PowerArchiver, IZarc, TugZip and Universal Extractor.
When you are installing Winrar,can associate extensions who will be see by this program:RAR,CAB,ARJ,ZIP,ACE,JAR,GAZIP,7 ZIP etc.
Menu has following:
1.File
-open archive
-set default password
- copy files to clipboard
-select all
2.Commands
-add files to archive
-extract in a folder
- view,delete,rename,print files
- add archive comment
- protect archive from damage
- lock archive
3.Tools
-scan archive for viruses
-convert and repair archives
-find files and generate report
4.Favorites
-add and organize
5.Options
-import/export
- themes
6.Help
- be informed about new Winrar features ( www.rarlab.com/rarnew.htm)
Qualities and features:
-can create compression profiles (define volume size and organize)
- high volume compression
- backup facilities
- security (you can exclude files like *.scr *.bat *.cmd *.lnk *.exe *.com *.pif from extracting)
- encryption
- self-extracting features
Can create RAR or ZIP archive formats, select compression speed (fast,fastest,best,good),extract files (replace,overwrite and skip options).

- 40 days trial