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WinRAR puts you alee of the oversupply when information technology comes to pinch. By consistently creating smaller athenaeum, WinRAR is often faster than the contest. This volition save you disc space, manual costs AND valuable working time too.

Features:

  • WinRAR supports all pop compression formats (RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, Z and vii-Zip).
  • WinRAR is ideal 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 y'all to split archives into separate volumes easily, making information technology possible to relieve them on several disks for example.
  • WinRAR is besides ideal, if you are sending information through the web. Its 128 bit password encryption and its authenticated signature engineering science volition give you the peace of mind y'all have been looking for.
  • WinRAR is shareware, meaning you have the chance to thoroughly test it. The program can be used admittedly gratuitous of charge for xl days!
  • WinRAR licenses are valid for all available language and platform versions. If you have purchased several licenses, yous can even mix versions to meet your own personal needs.
  • WinRAR gives you all future UPDATES for Gratuitous!

What'due south New:

  • WinRAR can unpack contents of .zst and .zipx athenaeum utilizing Zstandard algorithm.
  • Added support of Windows xi Explorer context menus.
    • First from Windows 11, an application can add only a single superlative level control or submenu to Explorer context carte du jour.
    • If "Cascaded context menus" in "Integration settings" dialog is on, this unmarried item is a submenu storing all necessary WinRAR commands. If this option is off, simply one extraction command for archives and one archiving command for usual files are available.
    • You can select these commands with "Context bill of fare items..." button in "Integration settings" dialog.
  • "Legacy context menus" choice in "Settings/Integration" dialog can be used in Windows 11 if WinRAR commands are missing in "Show more than options" Windows legacy context bill of fare or in context menus of third political party file managers. If WinRAR commands are already present here, keep "Legacy context menus" option turned off to preclude duplicating them. This option is not bachelor in Windows 10 and older.
  • Windows XP is not supported anymore. Minimum required operating system version is Windows Vista.
  • "Close" particular is added to "When done" list on "Avant-garde" page of archiving dialog. Information technology closes WinRAR window, when archiving is washed.
  • "When done" list is added to "Options" page of extraction dialog. Information technology allows to select an action similar turning a computer off or endmost WinRAR after completing extraction.
  • Switch -si tin exist used when extracting or testing to read annal data from stdin, such as:
    • blazon docs.rar | rar 10 -si -o+ -pmypwd dummy docs\
    • Even though the annal name is ignored with this switch, an arbitrary dummy archive name has to specified in the control line. Operations requiring astern seeks are unavailable in this way. Information technology includes displaying archive comments, testing the recovery record, utilizing the quick open data, processing multivolume archives. Prompts requiring user interaction are not allowed. Utilize -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 found in the beginning of archived name. Path is compared with names already prepared to store in archive, without drive letters and leading path separators. For example:
    • rar a -ep4texts\books archive c:\texts\books\technical
    • removes "text\books" from archived names, and so they get-go from 'technical'.
  • New -mes switch skips encrypted files when extracting or testing. It replaces the former -p- switch.
  • New -op switch sets the destination binder for 'x' and 'e' extraction commands. Unlike path_to_extract command line parameter, this switch also accepts paths without trailing path separator grapheme.
  • If 'p' command is used to print a file to stdout, informational messages are suppressed automatically to preclude them mixing with file data.
  • "Generate annal proper noun by mask" option and switch -ag care for but get-go 2 '1000' characters after 'H' as minutes. Previously any amount of such characters was considered every bit minutes. It makes possible to place the time field before the date, like -agHHMM-DDMMYY. Previous versions considered all 'Grand' in this string as minutes.
  • Maximum immune size of RAR5 recovery record is increased to 1000% of protected data size. Maximum number of RAR5 recovery volumes can be 10 times larger than protected RAR volumes. Previous WinRAR versions are not able to apply the recovery record to repair broken archives if recovery record size exceeds 99%. Similarly, previous versions cannot use recovery volumes if their number is equal or larger than number of RAR volumes.
  • Warning is issued if entered password exceeds the immune limit of 127 characters and is truncated. Previously such passwords had been truncated silently.
  • If annal includes reserved device names, the underscore graphic symbol is inserted in the beginning of such names when extracting. For case, aux.txt is converted to _aux.txt. Information technology is done to forbid compatibility bug with software unable to process such names. You can utilize "Allow potentially incompatible names" choice in "Advanced" part of extraction dialog or control line -oni switch to avert this conversion.
  • WinRAR attempts to reset the file cache before testing an archive. It helps to verify actual data written to disk instead of reading a buried copy.
  • Multiple -five switches specifying different sizes for unlike volumes are now allowed also for ZIP archives:
    • WinRAR a -v100k -v200k -v300k arcname.aught
    • Previously multiple -v switches were supported but for RAR archives.
  • Switches -sl and -sm can be used in WinRAR.exe control line mode when extracting archives in whatsoever supported formats, provided that such archive includes unpacked file sizes. Previously these switches could filter files by size merely in RAR and ZIP archives.
  • Newer folder selection dialog is invoked when pressing "Browse" push in WinRAR "Settings/Paths" page, "Repair" and "Convert" commands, also as in few other like places. Previously a simpler XP style binder choice dialog was opened.
  • When restoring from tray after completing an operation, WinRAR window is positioned under other opened windows, to not interfere with current user activities.
  • "650 MB CD" is removed and "ii GB volumes" is added to the list of predefined volume sizes in "Define volume sizes" dialog invoked from WinRAR "Settings/Compression".
  • "Rename" control selects the file proper name part up to the final dot. Previously it selected the entire proper noun.
  • If SFX archive size exceeds 4 GB, an error message is issued during pinch, immediately after exceeding this threshold. Previously this fault was reported only afterward completing pinch. Executables of such size cannot be started by Windows.
  • Command line -en switch is non supported anymore. Information technology created RAR4 athenaeum without the end of annal record. Terminate of archive record permits to gracefully skip external data like digital signatures.

Bugs stock-still:

  • when editing a file inside of .rar or .zip archive, WinRAR created a new SFX annal instead of updating an existing archive if "Create SFX archive" option was set in the default compression contour;
  • the total progress could exist displayed incorrectly when using -oi, -f, -u switches or appropriate GUI options;
  • "Notice files" control with "Apply all tables" selection and control line "it" commands failed to observe strings in UTF-sixteen encoding.