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'WinRAR' is a shareware file archiver and data compression utility by Eugene Roshal. It is arguably one of the two main file archive programs for Windows, along with WinZip. It is one of the few applications that is able to create RAR archives natively, as the encoding method is held to be proprietary.

Contents

Developer

Features

Versions and ports

Easter Egg

See also

External links

Developer

The current developer is Eugene Roshal, while his brother Alexander Roshal is engaged in business of the software. Eugene Roshal was born in Russia on March 10, 1972 and graduated from South Ural State University (former Chelyabinsk Technical University), Electronics' Faculty.

Features

WinRAR supports the following features:

★ Complete support for RAR and ZIP archives, and unpacking of CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7z and Z archives. Future versions of WinRAR are planned to include 7z creation. [1]

★ The ability to create self-extracting and multi-volume (split) archives.

★ Data redundancy is provided via ''recovery records'' and ''recovery volumes'', even allowing reconstruction of damaged archives.

★ Support for advanced NTFS file system options and Unicode in file names.

★ Optional archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a 128-bit key.

Versions and ports

There is no WinRAR for other platforms. See RAR for a multiplatform archiver for RAR format from the same author.

★ Notable version changes include:

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★ From version 3.50 beta 1, WinRAR adds support for interface skins and themes.

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★ From version 3.50, WinRAR supports Windows XP x64.

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★ From version 3.51, a few security vulnerabilities and bugs are addressed.

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★ From version 3.60 beta 1, WinRAR includes a multithreaded version of the compression algorithm, which improves compression speed on systems with dual-core or hyperthreading-enabled CPUs.

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★ From version 3.70 beta [2], WinRAR supports Windows Vista.

★ Release dates:

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★ Version 3.70: May 29, 2007

Easter Egg

★ When using version 3.20+, select the "About WinRAR..." option from the help menu. Click on the archive 'book' on the left of the pop up to watch it fall and bounce with sound effects.

★ You can also click on the Title picture "Winrar" for a little beach animation

See also

★ Comparison of file archivers

External links

★ RARlab WinRAR website (win-rar.com)

★ RARlab main website (rarlab.com)

★ WinRAR Polish website (winrar.pl)

★ WinRAR Spanish website (winrar.es)

★ Maximum Compression, a site providing test results for various file types using different compression tools (including WinRAR)

★ WinRAR older versions - All of the old versions from version 1.54 to the latest one

★ Free WinRAR Themes

★ A WinRAR Review

★ WINRAR as WINNAR citation

★ How to use .rar torrent files