What is Winrar?

You are a beginner at computer. You even do not know what is Winrar. You to get the knowledge of Winrar. This guide will tell you what is WinRar?

WinRAR is Windows version of the RAR archiver. Now it released the new version of Winrar 3.9. This powerful tool allows you to create, manage and control archive files. It is completely supports rar and zip. What's more, it is also able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z, ZIP archives. It consistently makes smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs.

Guide on what is Winrar

Winrar has released the new version of Winrar 3.9. Compared to previous version, it has highly improvment.

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.

It is for free to download Winrar 3.9. There are several versions of RAR, for a number of operating environments: Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, DOS, OS/2, MacOS X.