WinRAR (64-bit)

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Editors' Rating: 4 Excellent

Average User Rating: 4.5 out of 167 votes See all user reviews

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Quick Specs
Version: 5.10
File Size: 1.83MB
Date Added: June 11, 2014
Price: Free to try (40-day trial); $29.00 to buy (Buy it now)
Operating Systems: Windows XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008/7/8
Total Downloads: 19,356,659
Downloads Last Week: 65,838
Product ranking: #2 in File Compression
Additional Requirements: Not available
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Editors' review

by: Ben Markton on May 11, 2014

WinRAR (64-bit) allows you to open, create, and manage various types of compressed files through its intuitive and streamlined interface. This program offers a full set of features for manipulating and managing compressed files, and it works smoothly and efficiently.

Pros

Intuitive interface: When you attempt to open a ZIP or RAR file, this app automatically takes over and presents the contents of the compressed file, so that you can immediately access them. From this main interface window, you can then manage the archive by adding to it, repairing it, or protecting it, all using the tools readily available across the top of the interface. Even novice users will find their way around this program quite quickly.

Quick create or add: In addition to letting you open compressed files, WinRAR also allows you to create new ones or add to existing archives. You can do this either by dragging and dropping the files in, or by adding them using the controls across the top of the interface.

Cons

64-bit systems only: This particular version of WinRAR is for 64-bit systems only. If you have a 32-bit system, you can download a version optimized for that configuration. And if you're not sure, the 32-bit version will work on both 64-bit and 32-bit machines.

Bottom Line

WinRAR is at the top of the list when it comes to programs of this type. It's hard to go too long without having to open some type of compressed file that Windows can't handle, and so it's worth checking this app out. It's free to try for 40 days, but after that, you'll have to purchase a license for $29 to continue using it.

Editors' note: This is a review of the trial version of WinRAR (64-bit) 5.01.

Publisher's Description

From RARLAB:

WinRAR is a 32-bit / 64-bit Windows version of RAR Archiver, the powerful archiver and archive manager. WinRAR's main features are very 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. 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. WinRAR is available in over 40 languages.

What's new in this version:

What's new in the latest version WinRAR 5.10
• Added extraction support for ZIP and ZIPX archives using BZIP2, LZMA and PPMd compression.
• Added extraction support for 7z split archives (.7z.001, .7z.002, ...).
• Added support for AES-NI CPU instructions allowing to improve RAR encryption and decryption performance.
• Default theme images are scaled up with better quality in high DPI display mode.
• Environment variables, such as %temp%, can be used in "... See all new features »

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