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WinRAR – Create Compressed Archives in Minutes
Purpose of Win RAR
Archiving your files would be a great way to save the disk space in your computer. Files of any sort may occupy most of the disk space in your system. This will in fact slow down the processing speed of your computer. Clearing out all the files is one of the fastest ways to clear the disk space and improve your system's performance. However, there may be some important files that you would not want to delete. This is why you need a compaction software to create compressed archives. Win RAR is an amazing software compaction package that lets you create compressed archives.
Why WinRAR?
Being a powerful compaction package, WinRAR performs better than any other compression software. Learning about the core benefits of WinRAR will help you understand its value.
Supports Multiple Compression Formats- Win RAR supports a range of compression formats like RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, Z and 7-Zip.
Multimedia File Compression- You don't have to look for another compression package to compress those multimedia files. The special compression algorithm in Win RAR helps in compressing all types of multimedia files, executable and object libraries. Also, WinRAR automatically chooses the best compression method for multimedia files.
Split Archives- Win RAR lets you to split archives into separate volumes. This allows you to save the files in multiple disks.
Email Compressed Files- You can easily share those compressed files through the web using Win RAR.
Secure and Safe- The 128 bit password encryption and authenticated signature will allow you to transfer RAR files safely on the internet.
High Compression Rate- The original compression algorithm used in Win RAR lets you compress executable files, object libraries and large text files at a high compression rate. The software also offers an optional compression algorithm to compress multimedia files.
Unlimited Archiving- With an archiving size of up to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 bytes, the archiving limit for Win RAR is unlimited.
Easy Extraction- The Self extraction system in Win RAR lets you extract files without the need for an external extractor. Also, it supports RAR and ZIP2.0 archives and can extract other archived files like CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, Z, 7Z.
Interactive Interface- The classic interactive Windows Interface makes Win RAR an easy to use compression package.
Create Solid Archive- Win RAR is capable of creating a solid archive which helps in increasing the compression ration from 10% to 50% than any other compression package.
Repairs Damaged Archives- Win RAR is also capable of fixing the damaged archives. The archive can also be locked to prevent any further alterations.
Create and Alter SFX- SFX archives can be created and altered by making use of the default and external SFX modules available in the Win RAR.
Additional Features- Win RAR offers a range of other features like password creation, archiving, adding comments and much more.
Limitations
Like every other compaction software, Win RAR also have a few limitations.
Needs Enough Memory Space- The number of files that can be archived totally depends on the amount of memory that is available in the system. For example, around 128 bytes of memory is required to archive a single file using RAR. So, the amount of space required to compress one million files will be 128 MB. You can simply clean your system with CCleaner and create the needed memory space before archiving your files.
Archive Limit- The size of a single RAR archive is limited to 8,589,934,591 GB. However, NTFS can be used to create archives that are larger than 4 GB.
Archive Limit for Zip File- The Zip file archive limit of a single file is limited to 2GB. If you have files more than 2GB, you can compress it separately.
Although, there are few limitations in Win RAR, its positive aspects outweigh those limitations.
What's New in the Latest Release of Win RAR?
The latest release of Win RAR supports files stored in binary format using the TAR archives. Lots of bugs in the earlier versions of Win RAR has been fixed in the latest release.
So, start compressing your files by downloading the latest release of Win RAR for FREE.
