Winrar

WinRAR is a popular shareware file archiver and data compression utility developed by Eugene Roshal, and first released in the fall of 1993. It is one of the few applications that is able to create RAR archives natively, because the encoding method is held to be proprietary.

Developer

The current developer is Eugene Roshal, while his brother Alexander Roshal is engaged in running the business behind the software.

Features

WinRAR supports the following features:

* Complete support for RAR (WinRAR native conversion format) and ZIP archives, and unpacking of ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, EXE, 7z, and Z archives.[3]

* Multithreaded compression

* The ability to create self-extracting and multi-volume (split) archives.

* Data redundancy is provided via recovery records and recovery volumes, allowing reconstruction of damaged archives.

* Support for advanced NTFS file system options and Unicode in file names.

* Optional archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a 128-bit key.

Version history

Below is a summary of version information. Version 2.00 was released on 6 September 1996.

• Since version 2.90, the new RAR3 archive format is implemented. The new compressed archives cannot be managed by old versions of WinRAR.
• Since version 3.50, WinRAR adds support for interface skins and themes and support Windows XP x64.
• Since version 3.60, WinRAR includes a multithreaded version of the compression algorithm, which improves compression speed on systems with multiple, dual-core, or Hyper-threading-enabled CPUs.
• Since version 3.70, WinRAR features support for Windows Vista.
• Since version 3.80, support for ZIP archives, which contain Unicode file names in UTF-8.
• Since version 3.90, WinRAR adds support Windows x64 natively and support Windows 7.

DOWNLOAD LINKS

Software name	User interface	License	Size
WinRAR x86 (32 bit) 3.93	Graphic and command line	Trial	1332 KB
WinRAR x64 (64 bit) 3.93	Graphic and command line	Trial	1495 KB
RAR 3.93 for Pocket PC	Graphic only	Free	261 KB
RAR 3.93 for Linux	Command line only	Trial	814 KB
RAR 3.93 for Linux x64	Command line only	Trial	850 KB
RAR 3.93 for FreeBSD	Command line only	Trial	801 KB
RAR 3.93 for Mac OS X	Command line only	Trial	619 KB
RAR 3.93 for MS DOS <info>	Command line only	Trial	656 KB
WinRAR x86 (32 bit) on CNet site	Graphic and command line	Trial
WinRAR x64 (64 bit) on CNet site	Graphic and command line	Trial
WinRAR interface themes	Graphic only	Free

Localized WinRAR versions

Language	Version	Size
Albanian (32 bit)	3.93	1398 KB
Albanian (64 bit)	3.93	1561 KB
Arabic (32 bit)	3.93	1387 KB
Arabic (64 bit)	3.93	1549 KB
Belarusian (32 bit)	3.93	1361 KB
Belarusian (64 bit)	3.93	1524 KB
Bulgarian (32 bit)	3.93	1382 KB
Bulgarian (64 bit)	3.93	1546 KB
Catalan (32 bit)	3.93	1400 KB
Catalan (64 bit)	3.93	1563 KB
Chinese Simplified (32 bit)	3.93	1440 KB
Chinese Simplified (64 bit)	3.93	1584 KB
Chinese Traditional (32 bit)	3.93	1544 KB
Chinese Traditional (64 bit)	3.93	1703 KB
Croatian (32 bit)	3.93	1361 KB
Croatian (64 bit)	3.93	1524 KB
Czech (32 bit)	3.93	1484 KB
Czech (64 bit)	3.93	1648 KB
Danish (32 bit)	3.93	1358 KB
Danish (64 bit)	3.93	1521 KB
Dutch (32 bit)	3.93	1506 KB
Dutch (64 bit)	3.93	1670 KB
English (32 bit)	3.93	1332 KB
English (64 bit)	3.93	1495 KB
Estonian (32 bit)	3.93	1370 KB
Estonian (64 bit)	3.93	1549 KB
Farsi (32 bit)	3.93	1361 KB
Farsi (64 bit)	3.93	1524 KB
Finnish (32 bit)	3.93	1359 KB
Finnish (64 bit)	3.93	1523 KB
French (32 bit)	3.93	1405 KB
French (64 bit)	3.93	1568 KB
German (32 bit)	3.93	1410 KB
German (64 bit)	3.93	1580 KB
Greek (32 bit)	3.93	1360 KB
Greek (64 bit)	3.93	1522 KB
Hebrew (32 bit)	3.93	1357 KB
Hebrew (64 bit)	3.93	1519 KB
Hungarian (32 bit)	3.93	1360 KB
Hungarian (64 bit)	3.93	1523 KB
Italian (32 bit)	3.93	1438 KB
Italian (64 bit)	3.93	1598 KB
Japanese (32 bit)	3.93	1489 KB
Japanese (64 bit)	3.93	1629 KB
Korean (32 bit)	3.93	1403 KB
Korean (64 bit)	3.93	1565 KB
Macedonian (32 bit)	3.93	1353 KB
Macedonian (64 bit)	3.93	1515 KB
Norwegian (32 bit)	3.93	1359 KB
Norwegian (64 bit)	3.93	1522 KB
Polish (32 bit)	3.93	1405 KB
Polish (64 bit)	3.93	1564 KB
Portuguese (32 bit)	3.93	1351 KB
Portuguese (64 bit)	3.93	1514 KB
Portuguese Brazilian (32 bit)	3.93	2742 KB
Portuguese Brazilian (64 bit)	3.93	2912 KB
Romanian (32 bit)	3.93	1384 KB
Romanian (64 bit)	3.93	1549 KB
Russian (32 bit)	3.93	1457 KB
Russian (64 bit)	3.93	1622 KB
Serbian Cyrillic (32 bit)	3.92	1367 KB
Serbian Cyrillic (64 bit)	3.92	1521 KB
Serbian Latin (32 bit)	3.92	1385 KB
Serbian Latin (64 bit)	3.92	1546 KB
Slovak (32 bit)	3.93	1550 KB
Slovak (64 bit)	3.93	1714 KB
Slovenian (32 bit)	3.93	1360 KB
Slovenian (64 bit)	3.93	1522 KB
Spanish (32 bit)	3.93	1398 KB
Spanish (64 bit)	3.93	1560 KB
Spanish (Latin American) (32 bit)	3.93	1397 KB
Spanish (Latin American) (64 bit)	3.93	1560 KB
Swedish (32 bit)	3.93	1359 KB
Swedish (64 bit)	3.93	1522 KB
Thai (32 bit)	3.93	1360 KB
Thai (64 bit)	3.93	1577 KB
Turkish (32 bit)	3.93	1571 KB
Turkish (64 bit)	3.93	1733 KB
Ukrainian (32 bit)	3.93	1403 KB
Ukrainian (64 bit)	3.93	1505 KB
Uzbek (32 bit)	3.93	1377 KB
Uzbek (64 bit)	3.93	1540 KB
Valencian (32 bit)	3.91	1381 KB
Valencian (64 bit)	3.91	1488 KB

Localized Pocket RAR versions

Language	Version	Size
Azerbaijani	3.71	289 KB
Bulgarian	3.90	257 KB
Chinese Simplified	3.93	258 KB
Chinese Traditional	3.93	264 KB
Danish	3.71	267 KB
Dutch	3.60	204 KB
English	3.93	261 KB
French	3.50	213 KB
German	3.93	262 KB
Greek	3.93	263 KB
Italian	3.93	323 KB
Korean	3.71	217 KB
Polish	3.93	263 KB
Portuguese	3.90	259 KB
Russian	3.80	220 KB
Spanish	3.80	271 KB
Ukrainian	3.80	227 KB
Valencian	3.91	261 KB

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