WinRAR (32-bit) 3.90 Fileforum Pick

4.7 out of 5 stars 4.7 (1378 votes)

(August 19, 2009)

Windows (All) / Shareware; $29.00 / 404,710 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
    poisonu

    Reviewing 3.90 (Aug 21, 2009)

    Superb!!
    And it IS the defacto industry standard......

  2. 3 out of 5 stars
    dhry

    Reviewing 3.90 (Aug 20, 2009)

    Can't say this is worth more than three stars. Charging for an archiver is bad. 7-Zip is free, compresses better and faster and has an acceptable interface (no idea why so many people complain about it). WinRAR is stable and has been around for ages (I was one of the early beta-testers years ago), but these days I simply use the free alternatives - PAQ if I want maximum compression, 7Z if I want something fast and tight (fnarr fnarr), and.. well, I don't actually use anything else. I think the only thing that RAR has up on 7Z is the ability to add repair/redundancy blocks, but if I ever need that I simply use ICE ECC (again, free). Too much free stuff out there to justify wasting $30 just to make archives. There are dozens of free alternatives too - IZArc, TugZIP, jZip.. (shrug)

  3. 4 out of 5 stars
    shodan816

    Reviewing 3.90 (Aug 19, 2009)

    The ONLY reason I rate this a '4' instead of a '5' is the price. It's a bit on the high side. Otherwise, this utility is perfect, IMHO.

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    Cure110

    Reviewing 3.90 Beta 5 (Jul 20, 2009)

    emanresu:

    Most people just check the checkbox named "Wait if other Winrar copies are active" -> Save settings.

    Now the user can open archives (or use the context menu) and extract archives all over the place. The archives will be queued up and started automatically as soon as the previous archive is done extracting.

    Edit: Damn. To slow :)

  5. 4 out of 5 stars
    chinch

    Reviewing 3.90 Beta 5 (Jul 20, 2009)

    In response to the previous post, "emanresU deriseD", there is an option in the settings that says "wait if other winrar copies are active".. you can get to this by choosing "extract to..." from the context menu, or going into the actual program and selecting a rar and hitting "extract to". there under the advanced tab, you will find this option. check it, then hit SAVE on the main tab (to set as default behavior). this will now only extract 1 archive at a time, in effect, queuing extractions if you select multiple rar's and hit 'extract'. hope that helps with that problem for you, but i agree with you completely.. lots of tiny bug fixes that don't seem to affect 99% of users, and no real addition of extra features or anything 'useful' lately, although 64 bit support was a good step.

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