WinRAR is a powerful utility that includes a wide range of built-in additional features, including protection of archived data.
When it comes to data compression, WinRAR is second to none. By creating more compact archives, WinRAR is often faster than other programs. This saves you data transfer costs as well as working time. WinRAR is ideal for compressing multimedia files.
Program features
- Create RAR and ZIP archives;
- Unpacking files of CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7z, Z formats;
- Ability to encrypt archives using the AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) algorithm with a key length of 128 bits, with a password hash using the SHA-1 algorithm as the encryption key;
- Ability to work with files up to 8.589 trillion (1012) gigabytes in size;
- Create self-extracting, continuous and multi-volume archives;
- Adding additional information to archives to restore the archive in case of damage, including the creation of special recovery volumes that allow you to restore a multi-volume archive in case of damage to the parts with information;
- Full support for the NTFS file system and Unicode file names;
- Command line support.
Advantages of WinRAR
- Cross-platform;
- Multilingualism (41 languages, including Russian);
- Very high degree of file compression;
- Support for Unicode;
- Speed of work, thanks to the use of multi-core processors;
- Ability to recover broken archives;
- Support for working with different types of archives.
Disadvantages of WinRAR
An annoying window appears after 40 days of free use, reminding you to purchase the program.
WinRAR is one of the most popular file archivers thanks to its speed, ease of use and high compression ratio.