Reviewer, 2009-03-23 04:23:00

WinRAR is a 32-bit Windows version of RAR Archiver, the powerful archiver and archive manager. WinRARs main features are 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.

Features: Designed to work on Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP/2003 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. Features include: 1) Powerful compression tool with many integrated additional functions to help you organize your compressed archives; 2) Supports all popular compression formats; 3) Ideal for multimedia files; 4) Allows you to split archives into separate volumes easily, making it possible to save them on several disks for example; 5) Ideal for sending data through the web with its 128 bit password encryption and its authenticated signature technology.

Overall: WinRAR is available in over 40 languages. The command line version RAR is available for Linux, DOS, OS/2, FreeBSD and MAC OS X.Pocket RAR, the free WinRAR version for Pocket PCs, completes the compression product range. It also has already integrated the ability to create and change SFX archives (.exe files) using default and external SFX modules. The free download version is an evaluation version.