What's new in winrar 3.90?

Winrar has released its new version of Winrar 3.9. All the users of Winrar want to know what's new in Winrar 3.9. So they will know if it is worth installing.

WinRARis a 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 archives. It consistently makes smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs.

Guide on what's new in winrar 3.90.

With the development of winrar, the latest version of Winrar 3.9 has more improvements thant previous version.

The new features in Winrar 3.9:

1. New 'Shutdown' variable in 'Software\WinRAR\Policy' registry key allows to disable "Turn PC off when done" option for security reasons. Read "Configuration settings/Registry variables" for more details.

2. Program Compatibility Assistant in Windows 7 will not display an erroneous "This program might not have installed correctly" message after closing RAR SFX archives created by this beta.

3. Improved compatibility with high DPI Windows display mode.

4. Bugs fixed:

a) Winrar did not display archiving commands in context menu if user selected several archives;
b) Winrar did not handle 'LongLink' records in TAR archives correctly;
c) recovery record based repair did not work correctly in previous beta versions;
d) Winrar could display a folder icon for archived files without a file extension;
e) WinRAR could display random characters as archive comment when browsing some ZIP SFX archives, which do not contain any archive comment;
f) WinRAR could fail to compress some of subfolders specified in the command line if -n switch was present;
g) WinRAR could crash when decompressing some of corrupt RAR archives.

5. WinRAR displays only one password prompt when unpacking 7z archive with encrypted file names.

6. Further improvements in shell extension performance. Now WinRAR context menu must be more responsive when working with thousands of selected files.

7. WinRAR version for Windows x64 is available. If you use Windows x64, it is strongly recommended to install 64 bit WinRAR version. It provides a higher performance and better shell integration than 32 bit version.

8. RAR compression speed is improved for multi-core and multi-CPU systems.