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WinRAR puts yous ahead of the oversupply when information technology comes to compression. By consistently creating smaller archives, WinRAR is often faster than the competition. This volition relieve you lot disc infinite, manual costs AND valuable working fourth dimension as well.

Features:

  • WinRAR supports all pop compression formats (RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, Z and vii-Goose egg).
  • WinRAR is platonic for multimedia files. WinRAR automatically recognizes and selects the all-time compression method. The special compression algorithm compresses multimedia files, executables and object libraries especially well.
  • WinRAR allows you to split archives into separate volumes easily, making information technology possible to salvage them on several disks for example.
  • WinRAR is also ideal, if you lot are sending information through the web. Its 128 chip password encryption and its authenticated signature engineering will give you the peace of mind you have been looking for.
  • WinRAR is shareware, meaning you have the chance to thoroughly test it. The program can exist used absolutely free of charge for 40 days!
  • WinRAR licenses are valid for all available language and platform versions. If you take purchased several licenses, you tin even mix versions to meet your ain personal needs.
  • WinRAR gives you all hereafter UPDATES for FREE!

What's New:

  • WinRAR can unpack contents of .zst and .zipx archives utilizing Zstandard algorithm.
  • Added back up of Windows xi Explorer context menus.
    • Beginning from Windows eleven, an application tin can add only a single top level command or submenu to Explorer context menu.
    • If "Cascaded context menus" in "Integration settings" dialog is on, this unmarried detail is a submenu storing all necessary WinRAR commands. If this option is off, only one extraction command for archives and one archiving command for usual files are available.
    • You tin can select these commands with "Context menu items..." button in "Integration settings" dialog.
  • "Legacy context menus" option in "Settings/Integration" dialog can be used in Windows 11 if WinRAR commands are missing in "Evidence more options" Windows legacy context carte or in context menus of third political party file managers. If WinRAR commands are already present hither, keep "Legacy context menus" selection turned off to prevent duplicating them. This option is not bachelor in Windows 10 and older.
  • Windows XP is not supported anymore. Minimum required operating organisation 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 done" list is added to "Options" page of extraction dialog. It allows to select an action like turning a computer off or closing WinRAR after completing extraction.
  • Switch -si can exist used when extracting or testing to read archive data from stdin, such as:
    • blazon docs.rar | rar x -si -o+ -pmypwd dummy docs\
    • Even though the archive name is ignored with this switch, an arbitrary dummy archive proper name has to specified in the command line. Operations requiring backward seeks are unavailable in this mode. It includes displaying archive comments, testing the recovery tape, utilizing the quick open information, processing multivolume archives. Prompts requiring user interaction are not immune. 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 plant in the beginning of archived name. Path is compared with names already prepared to shop in archive, without drive letters and leading path separators. For example:
    • rar a -ep4texts\books annal c:\texts\books\technical
    • removes "text\books" from archived names, so they outset from 'technical'.
  • New -mes switch skips encrypted files when extracting or testing. Information technology replaces the former -p- switch.
  • New -op switch sets the destination folder for 'ten' and 'eastward' extraction commands. Different path_to_extract command line parameter, this switch also accepts paths without trailing path separator character.
  • If 'p' command is used to print a file to stdout, informational messages are suppressed automatically to forestall them mixing with file data.
  • "Generate archive proper name by mask" pick and switch -ag treat only first ii 'M' characters after 'H' as minutes. Previously any amount of such characters was considered as minutes. It makes possible to place the time field before the engagement, like -agHHMM-DDMMYY. Previous versions considered all 'M' in this string as minutes.
  • Maximum allowed size of RAR5 recovery tape is increased to thou% of protected data size. Maximum number of RAR5 recovery volumes can be ten 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 utilise recovery volumes if their number is equal or larger than number of RAR volumes.
  • Alert is issued if entered countersign exceeds the immune limit of 127 characters and is truncated. Previously such passwords had been truncated silently.
  • If archive includes reserved device names, the underscore graphic symbol is inserted in the beginning of such names when extracting. For example, aux.txt is converted to _aux.txt. Information technology is washed to forestall compatibility problems with software unable to procedure such names. You can utilize "Allow potentially incompatible names" option in "Advanced" function of extraction dialog or command line -oni switch to avoid 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 -v switches specifying different sizes for dissimilar volumes are now allowed besides for ZIP archives:
    • WinRAR a -v100k -v200k -v300k arcname.zilch
    • Previously multiple -v switches were supported only for RAR archives.
  • Switches -sl and -sm tin be used in WinRAR.exe command line way when extracting athenaeum in any supported formats, provided that such archive includes unpacked file sizes. Previously these switches could filter files by size but in RAR and Nil archives.
  • Newer folder selection dialog is invoked when pressing "Scan" button in WinRAR "Settings/Paths" page, "Repair" and "Convert" commands, as well as in few other like places. Previously a simpler XP style folder option dialog was opened.
  • When restoring from tray after completing an functioning, WinRAR window is positioned nether other opened windows, to not interfere with electric 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/Pinch".
  • "Rename" control selects the file name office upwards to the final dot. Previously information technology 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 error was reported only subsequently completing compression. Executables of such size cannot exist started by Windows.
  • Control line -en switch is not supported anymore. Information technology created RAR4 archives without the stop of archive tape. Finish of archive record 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 annal if "Create SFX annal" option was set in the default pinch profile;
  • the total progress could be displayed incorrectly when using -oi, -f, -u switches or appropriate GUI options;
  • "Find files" command with "Employ all tables" option and command line "it" commands failed to find strings in UTF-16 encoding.