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WinRAR puts you ahead of the oversupply when it comes to compression. Past consistently creating smaller archives, WinRAR is ofttimes faster than the competition. This will save you disc infinite, transmission costs AND valuable working time as well.

Features:

  • WinRAR supports all popular compression formats (RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, Z and 7-Zip).
  • WinRAR is platonic for multimedia files. WinRAR automatically recognizes and selects the best compression method. The special compression algorithm compresses multimedia files, executables and object libraries particularly well.
  • WinRAR allows yous to split athenaeum into separate volumes easily, making it possible to save them on several disks for case.
  • WinRAR is as well ideal, if y'all are sending information through the spider web. Its 128 bit password encryption and its authenticated signature technology volition give you lot the peace of mind y'all have been looking for.
  • WinRAR is shareware, meaning you lot accept the take a chance to thoroughly test it. The program can exist used absolutely gratuitous of accuse for 40 days!
  • WinRAR licenses are valid for all available language and platform versions. If you have purchased several licenses, you tin fifty-fifty mix versions to meet your own personal needs.
  • WinRAR gives yous all hereafter UPDATES for FREE!

What's New:

  • WinRAR can unpack contents of .zst and .zipx archives utilizing Zstandard algorithm.
  • Added support of Windows 11 Explorer context menus.
    • Starting time from Windows 11, an awarding can add only a single top level control or submenu to Explorer context menu.
    • If "Cascaded context menus" in "Integration settings" dialog is on, this unmarried particular is a submenu storing all necessary WinRAR commands. If this option is off, but one extraction command for archives and one archiving control for usual files are available.
    • You can select these commands with "Context menu items..." button in "Integration settings" dialog.
  • "Legacy context menus" option in "Settings/Integration" dialog tin be used in Windows xi if WinRAR commands are missing in "Show more options" Windows legacy context menu or in context menus of third political party file managers. If WinRAR commands are already present hither, keep "Legacy context menus" option turned off to prevent duplicating them. This pick is not available in Windows 10 and older.
  • Windows XP is not supported anymore. Minimum required operating arrangement version is Windows Vista.
  • "Shut" item is added to "When done" listing on "Advanced" page of archiving dialog. It closes WinRAR window, when archiving is done.
  • "When washed" list is added to "Options" page of extraction dialog. It allows to select an activity like turning a estimator off or endmost WinRAR afterwards completing extraction.
  • Switch -si can be used when extracting or testing to read archive data from stdin, such as:
    • type docs.rar | rar x -si -o+ -pmypwd dummy docs\
    • Even though the annal proper noun is ignored with this switch, an capricious dummy archive proper noun has to specified in the command line. Operations requiring backward seeks are unavailable in this mode. Information technology includes displaying archive comments, testing the recovery tape, utilizing the quick open data, processing multivolume archives. Prompts requiring user interaction are not allowed. Use -o[+|-|r], -p or -mes switches to suppress such prompts.
  • New -ep4 switch excludes the path prefix when archiving or extracting if this path is constitute in the commencement of archived name. Path is compared with names already prepared to store in annal, without drive messages and leading path separators. For instance:
    • rar a -ep4texts\books annal c:\texts\books\technical
    • removes "text\books" from archived names, and then they start from 'technical'.
  • New -mes switch skips encrypted files when extracting or testing. It replaces the onetime -p- switch.
  • New -op switch sets the destination folder for '10' and 'e' extraction commands. Unlike path_to_extract command line parameter, this switch besides accepts paths without trailing path separator character.
  • If 'p' command is used to impress a file to stdout, informational letters are suppressed automatically to prevent them mixing with file data.
  • "Generate annal name by mask" option and switch -ag care for simply starting time ii 'Thou' characters afterwards 'H' as minutes. Previously whatever corporeality of such characters was considered every bit minutes. It makes possible to place the fourth dimension field before the date, similar -agHHMM-DDMMYY. Previous versions considered all 'K' in this string as minutes.
  • Maximum allowed size of RAR5 recovery record is increased to 1000% of protected data size. Maximum number of RAR5 recovery volumes tin can be x times larger than protected RAR volumes. Previous WinRAR versions are not able to apply the recovery tape to repair broken archives if recovery record size exceeds 99%. Similarly, previous versions cannot employ recovery volumes if their number is equal or larger than number of RAR volumes.
  • Warning is issued if entered password exceeds the allowed limit of 127 characters and is truncated. Previously such passwords had been truncated silently.
  • If annal includes reserved device names, the underscore character is inserted in the beginning of such names when extracting. For example, aux.txt is converted to _aux.txt. It is done to prevent compatibility problems with software unable to process such names. You can use "Allow potentially incompatible names" choice in "Advanced" part of extraction dialog or command line -oni switch to avert this conversion.
  • WinRAR attempts to reset the file enshroud before testing an archive. It helps to verify actual data written to disk instead of reading a cached copy.
  • Multiple -5 switches specifying different sizes for different volumes are now immune also for ZIP athenaeum:
    • WinRAR a -v100k -v200k -v300k arcname.cypher
    • Previously multiple -v switches were supported just for RAR archives.
  • Switches -sl and -sm tin can be used in WinRAR.exe command line mode when extracting archives in any supported formats, provided that such archive includes unpacked file sizes. Previously these switches could filter files by size only in RAR and ZIP archives.
  • Newer folder selection dialog is invoked when pressing "Browse" button in WinRAR "Settings/Paths" page, "Repair" and "Catechumen" commands, besides as in few other similar places. Previously a simpler XP style folder selection dialog was opened.
  • When restoring from tray after completing an operation, WinRAR window is positioned under other opened windows, to non interfere with current user activities.
  • "650 MB CD" is removed and "2 GB volumes" is added to the list of predefined volume sizes in "Define volume sizes" dialog invoked from WinRAR "Settings/Compression".
  • "Rename" command selects the file name part up to the terminal dot. Previously it selected the entire proper name.
  • If SFX annal size exceeds 4 GB, an error message is issued during pinch, immediately after exceeding this threshold. Previously this mistake was reported only subsequently completing compression. Executables of such size cannot be started by Windows.
  • Control line -en switch is not supported anymore. It created RAR4 archives without the finish of annal record. Terminate of archive tape permits to gracefully skip external data like digital signatures.

Bugs fixed:

  • when editing a file inside of .rar or .zip archive, WinRAR created a new SFX archive instead of updating an existing archive if "Create SFX archive" selection was set in the default pinch profile;
  • the full progress could be displayed incorrectly when using -oi, -f, -u switches or appropriate GUI options;
  • "Find files" command with "Use all tables" selection and control line "it" commands failed to detect strings in UTF-16 encoding.