WinRAR (32-bit) 3.90 Beta 4 Fileforum Pick

4.7 out of 5 stars 4.7 (1350 votes)

BETA (June 30, 2009)

Windows (All) / Shareware; $29.00 / 396,208 downloads

RAR is a general purpose archiving and compression program competing with/replacing programs such as PKZip, ARJ, and others. It offers significantly improved compression ratios, easier use and a cheaper price as well as supporting long file names, disk spanning, and self-extracting file creation.

You can also try RAR for Mac OS X, Linux, or FreeBSD.

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  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    alanpalmer

    Reviewing 3.90 Beta 4 (Jul 1, 2009)

    @ Joco: WinRAR is for Windows, hence the "Win" prefix. The program for Linux (or MacOS or FreeBSD) is RAR. I don't see any point in saving to 7z format; 7-Zip can open zip and rar files and there's not really any better compression than rar files.

    It does all I need of it and a lot more. For years I used WinZip, but since they went back on Nico Mak's promise never to charge for upgrades I've never regretted changing.

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    allthebestnamesgone

    Reviewing 3.90 Beta 4 (Jun 30, 2009)

    Version 3.90 beta 4

    1. New 'Shutdown' variable in 'Software\WinRAR\Policy' registry key
    allows to disable "Turn PC off when done" option for security reasons.
    Read "Configuration settings/Registry variables" for more details.

    2. Program Compatibility Assistant in Windows 7 will not display
    an erroneous "This program might not have installed correctly"
    message after closing RAR SFX archives created by this beta.

    3. Improved compatibility with high DPI Windows display mode.

    4. Bugs fixed:

    a) beta 3 did not display archiving commands in context menu
    if user selected several archives;

    b) beta 3 did not handle 'LongLink' records in TAR archives correctly;

    c) recovery record based repair did not work correctly in previous
    beta versions;

    d) beta 3 could display a folder icon for archived files without
    a file extension.

  3. 4 out of 5 stars
    Joco

    Reviewing 3.90 Beta 3 (Jun 10, 2009)

    WinRAR is gvery ood, but for $30 I would expect a few more features:
    - create native 7z format
    - have a Linux version

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    spacemarine

    Reviewing 3.90 Beta 3 (Jun 10, 2009)

    The best archiver, a true classic.
    100% reliable, has never let me down.
    I use it for all my backups.

    Clean interface (a bit old fashioned, but thats ok for me).
    Anyway, the interfce is still AGES ahead of 7zip's s***ty,
    featureless and pathetic GUI.

    5/5

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    bigmama

    Reviewing 3.90 Beta 2 (May 21, 2009)

    this software is perfect.
    nothing else to say.

    Has everything, you want, without bugs.

    Maybe one addition should be compressing in 7zip format and better toolbar icons

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