What is WinRAR

WinRAR is Windows version of the RAR archiver - a powerful tool which allows you to create, manage and control archive files. 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.

WinRAR features

• Complete support of RAR and ZIP 2.0 archives;
• Highly sophisticated, original compression algorithm;
• Special algorithms optimized for text, audio, graphics, 32-bit and 64-bit Intel executables compression;
• Shell interface including drag-and-drop facility and wizard;
• Command line interface;
• Non RAR archives (7Z, ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LZH, TAR, UUE, Z ) management;
• Solid archiving, which can raise compression ratio by 10% - 50% over more common methods, particularly when packing a large number of small, similar files;
• Multivolume archives;
• Creation of self-extracting archives (also multivolume) using the default or optional SFX modules;
• Recovering physically damaged archives;
• Recovery volumes allowing to reconstruct missing parts of multivolume archives.
• Unicode support in file names;
• Other service functions, such as encryption, archive comments , error logging, etc.