WinRAR

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).Better compression, easier use, lower price. All extras are included.Is available in many languages like Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Catalan,Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese Brazilian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian Cyrillic, Serbian Latin, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Valencian.

- compression by consistently making smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs.
- His features are constantly being developed to keep WinRAR ahead of the pack.
- When you purchase WinRAR license you are buying a license to the complete technology, no need to purchase add-ons to create self-extracting files, it's all included. One price, one payment, once.
- You also receive the benefit of a life-time use of the WinRAR archiver. No upgrade fee to pay. When a new release is made, simply download and install, your license is valid for life.
- Recovery record and recovery volumes allow to reconstruct even physically damaged archives.
- is easier to use than many other archivers with the inclusion of a special "Wizard" mode which allows instant access to the basic archiving functions through a simple question and answer procedure. This avoids confusion in the early stages of use.
- provides complete support for RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives.
- offers a graphic interactive interface utilizing mouse and menus as well as the command line interface.
- supports files and archives up to 8,589 billion gigabytes in size. The number of archived files is, for all practical purposes, unlimited.
- offers the ability to create self-extracting and multivolume archives.
- offers you the benefit of industry strength archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a key of 128 bits.

Is an archiver for RAR and ZIP files.Was developed in 1993 by Alexander Roshal who is representing the RarLab Company. It is different ,and a competitor in the same time, from WinZip ,WinAce or 7 Zip When you are installing this software 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).Make folders smaller and send them via email or save on flash USB devices.Choose a password to protect access.Receive files with small sizes and decompress to have access at all of them.

Make big Size files much smaller to put in an archive or to transfer it