WinRAR 3.9 Reviews

Pros

WinRAR complete supports of RAR and ZIP 2.0 archives. It is created with highly sophisticated, original compression algorithm. Special algorithms optimized for text, audio, graphics, 32-bit and 64-bit Intel executables compression.

Cons

The number of files, which can be added to an archive, depends upon the amount of available memory and the length of file names. Roughly 128 bytes of memory are required per archived file for RAR archive.

Benefits

Non RAR archives management: Additionally to complete support of RAR and ZIP WinRAR provides basic operations for 7Z, ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LZH, TAR, UUE, Z files created by other tools: view contents, extract files, show comments and archive information. You do not need to have any external programs to handle these formats;

Solid archiving, which can raise compression ratio by 10% - 50% over more common methods, particularly when packing a large number of small, similar files;

It help you to recover physically damaged archives.And its Recovery volumes allows to reconstruct missing parts of multivolume archives.

Creation of self-extracting archives (also multivolume) using the default or optional SFX modules. In the WinRAR shell you can select the desired SFX module from the list displayed when executing Convert archive to SFX command.

Interface

There are two kind of interface in WinRAR. One is Shell interface and the other is Command line interface. Shell interface including drag-and-drop facility and wizard. Command line interface is possible to perform WinRAR commands from the command line.

Setup

The installing speed is very quick. You just double click the setup.exe. Then following the installation wizard. It is free of virsus, so it's safe to install. You can use it without any fear, for there are no spyware and adware.

System Requirements

There are several versions of RAR, for a number of operating environments: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, DOS, OS/2, MacOS X. There are two versions of RAR for Windows:

Version with graphical user interface - WinRAR.exe;
Command line console (text mode) version - Rar.exe.

Conclusion

WinRAR is Windows version of the RAR archiver. It is a powerful tool which allows you to create, manage and control archive files. It offers you the best way to convert files to rar, zip. It is very worth using.