WinRAR is a powerful archive manager Win32 Linux Mac RAR files can usually compress content by 8 percent to 15 percent more than ZIP files can WinRAR is a powerful compression tool with many integrated additional functions to help you organize your compressed archives 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
WinRAR puts you ahead of the crowd when it comes to compression By consistently creating smaller archives WinRAR is often faster than the competition This will save you disc space transmission costs AND valuable working time as well WinRAR is ideal for multimedia files WinRAR automatically recognizes and selects the best compression method The special compression algorithm compresses multimedia files executables and object libraries particularly well


Changes in Version 3 90 Beta 1
1 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 ( كلمة ممنوعة بوساطة الادارة )( كلمة ممنوعة بوساطة الادارة )( كلمة ممنوعة بوساطة الادارة )( كلمة ممنوعة بوساطة الادارة )l integration than 32 bit version
2 RAR compression speed is improved for multi core and multi CPU systems This improvement is most noticeable in Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems
3 quot Remove duplicate folders from extraction path quot option in quot Settings Compression quot dialog is replaced by more universal quot Remove redundant folders from extraction path quot option This option will eliminate redundant archive name based folders from extraction path if you unpack an archive with quot Extract to DestName quot context menu command and if archive root folder contains only one folder and no files
4 Changes in quot Extraction path and options quot dialog
a quot New folder quot button creates a new subfolder in currently selected folder
b F2 key renames a selected folder in the folders tree
c F5 key updated the tree pane contents
d Del key removes a selected folder in the folders tree
5 You can enable quot Show seconds quot option in quot Settings File list quot dialog if you wish to see seconds in file dates in file list in WinRAR ( كلمة ممنوعة بوساطة الادارة )( كلمة ممنوعة بوساطة الادارة )( كلمة ممنوعة بوساطة الادارة )( كلمة ممنوعة بوساطة الادارة )l
6 quot Where to check for SFX archives quot options group in quot Settings Integration Context menus items quot dialog lets you to control processing of SFX archives in context menus For example if you frequently right click quot exe quot files on slow network disks you can turn off quot Network disks quot options to minimize the delay before displaying the context menu
7 If you sort files by name in the file list in WinRAR ( كلمة ممنوعة بوساطة الادارة )( كلمة ممنوعة بوساطة الادارة )( كلمة ممنوعة بوساطة الادارة )( كلمة ممنوعة بوساطة الادارة )l WinRAR will use the new logical file name sorting same as in Windows Explorer considering digits in file names by their numerical value So files will be sorted as 1 txt 2 txt 10 txt instead of previous 1 txt 10 txt 2 txt This new sort behavior is available in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and newer
8 Ctrl W key combination can be used to close the main WinRAR window also as WinRAR viewer windows quot View as Windows text quot shortcut in WinRAR viewer changed from Ctrl W to Ctrl I
9 New command line switch r disables recursion completely So 39 rar a r arc dirname 39 command will add only the empty dirname folder and ignore its contents By default if dirname does not include wildcards RAR adds its contents even if r switch is not specified
10 If used when extracting the new command line switch ai forces RAR to ignore file attributes When using this switch extracted files will always have attributes assigned by operating system to a newly created file by default
11 If output file name is not specified in quot cw quot command console RAR will send comment data to stdout
12 When compressing stdin data with si name switch RAR sets modification time of archived entry to current system time Previous RAR versions did not fill this field resulting in meaningless modification time for stdin
13 Message displayed when you place the mouse cursor on WinRAR tray icon includes the archive name now Previously only time left and total percent were displayed for archiving operations
14 Bugs fixed
a WinRAR could fail to open tar or tar gz archive if such archive contained a file larger than 8 GB
b WinRAR context menu did not work properly in Windows 7 beta if icons in context menus were enabled and user clicked a file inside of Windows 7 Library folder
c previous WinRAR versions failed to rename files having 5 or more continuous spaces in the name WinRAR ( كلمة ممنوعة بوساطة الادارة )( كلمة ممنوعة بوساطة الادارة )( كلمة ممنوعة بوساطة الادارة )( كلمة ممنوعة بوساطة الادارة )l does not display such spaces for safety reasons because they can hide an actual file extension But this security measure prevented the rename command to work properly