WinRAR 4.01

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Date updated

June 1, 2011

Developer

RARLab | (more products)

Price

$48.97

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2,820

License

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Platform

Windows

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5 / 5

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Description of WinRAR 4.01

A powerful archive manager. Fast compression

It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. Archive file formats supported are ZIP, RAR, ACE, CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, BZ2, UUE, JAR, ISO, 7Z and Z.

Key features

• WinRAR introduces an original compression algorithm. It provides high compression ratios on executable files, object libraries, large text files, etc.
• WinRAR offers an optional compression algorithm highly optimized for multimedia data.
• WinRAR supports files and archives up to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 bytes in size, about 9000PB. The number of archived files is unlimited for all practical purposes.
• WinRAR provides complete support for RAR and ZIP 2.0 archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, Z, 7Z archives.
• WinRAR supports NTFS file security and data streams.
• WinRAR offers both a classic interactive Windows interface and the command line interface.
• WinRAR provides functionality for creating a 'solid' archive, which can raise the compression ratio by 10% - 50% over more common methods, particularly when packing large numbers of small files.
• WinRAR offers the ability to create and change SFX archives using default and external SFX modules.
• WinRAR offers the ability to create a multi-volume archive as SFX.
• WinRAR offers a number of service functions, such as setting a password, adding archive and file comments. Even physically damaged archives may be repaired and an archive may be locked to prevent further changes.

Editor's review for WinRAR

Simply put, WinRAR is a very powerful manager for archives. It can perform data backup, do decompression of Zip and RAR files, reduce the attachment size for email messages and many other processes. It can also decompress files downloaded from the net and then generate new file archives in the Zip and RAR formats.

There are masses of utilities for solid compression but WinRAR is in a class of its own. The inherent features packed in this powerhouse of a shareware make it stand as a colossal among the other tiny under-performing utilities. Its muscle powered functions make it a Gulliver in the land of the Lilliput. The gulf between the functionality and performance is as wide as the Gulf of Mexico, if not more! In addition, the WinRAR program is very user friendly, lightweight and also flexible to use. This makes it a Kohinoor diamond among its counterparts. The experience of using WinRAR is so sublime that you just forget even the existence of any other archive manager.

Its intuitiveness is fine tuned that a mere placement of the mouse on any icon displays the features hidden underneath that iconic treasure trove. Like its misbehaving counterparts, it does not require the use of extra activities to shovel out the contents hidden by the icons. And if you do not like the superfluous appearance of the icons, WinRAR gives you the ability to alter their appearance into exquisite designs. The WinRAR panel for folder tree enables your rummaging around for files in the directories with flexibility and ease. Space is at a premium in the real physical world as well as in the virtual world and whenever space can be reduced for any computer application, it is as welcome as a cuppa on a cold night. The WinRAR out-performs it counterparts with a ratio of anything between eight to fifteen percent better compression, making it a most sought after program for archiving.

There are frequent instances of the professionals and experts divorcing from their previous archive manager and switching over to the more versatile and high performing WinRAR. It has been adorned with integration of scans for virus and bejeweled with interface tweaks for Microsoft Vista making it an ornament of much demand.

In addition, WinRAR packs excellent looks along with high intelligent performance ability for not only basic unzipping or zipping but also extends support for unpacking myriad formats of archives including ZIP, JAR, TAR, ISO, BZZ and ACE. The cherry on the cake are its versatile functions like file comments embedded, locking of archives, repairing archives which are damaged, and ease of encryption and self-extraction of archives. The WinRAR is an archive manager after your heart with its offering of an option for deletion of files just archived or even the files loaded temporarily.

Most users would agree that WinRAR is way ahead of the pack with its very resourceful and multitalented functional features of a solid compression with multimedia and general compression to top it. It has all the mod cons of processing ZIP files as also other archives of non-RAR formats, protection for archives against damages, self extracting archives or SFX which are programmable and virus scanning of the archives.

Other powerful arrows in its quiver include ability to verify the authenticity of files, Unicode and NTFS support, integration for Windows x64 shell and support for multi-threads and themes, interface wizard as well for a graphical and command line interface.

The versatile and superlative functions of WinRAR are the acme of an archive manager, making it the much sought after comrade in arms for your virtual space needs!

What is new in version 4.01

Added support for file sizes stored in binary format in TAR archives. Some TAR archives use the binary size format instead of octal for files larger than 8 GB.

Bugs fixed:
• "Repair" command failed to properly reconstruct structure of RAR archives, which contained at least one file with packed size exceeding 4 GB. This bug did not affect the recovery record based repair. It happened only if recovery record was not found and WinRAR performed reconstruction of archive structure;
• even if "Do not extract paths" option in "Advanced" part of extraction dialog was set as the default, WinRAR still unpacked file paths if called from Explorer context menu;
• after entering a wrong password for encrypted ZIP archive, sometimes WinRAR ignored subsequent attempts to enter a valid password;
• "Wizard" command did not allow to create self-extracting and multivolume archives, when compressing a single folder or a file without extension;
• "Import settings from file" command did not restore multiline comments in WinRAR compression profiles;
• when converting RAR volumes having name1.name2.part#.rar name format, "Convert archives" command erroneously removed ".name2" name part. So resulting archive had name1.rar file name instead of expected name1.name2.rar;
• RAR could crash when creating a new archive with -agNNN switch if archive number in generated name was 110 or larger;
• WinRAR failed to display non-English file names in 7-Zip archives properly if they used a non-default code page. It was the display only problem, such names were unpacked correctly.