Pluses: There are several versions of RAR, for a number of operating environments: Windows 32 bit and 64 bit, Linux, FreeBSD, DOS, OS/2, MacOS X.

Winrar has a very friendly user interface, so that the menus are customizable and offer access to important archive commands like extract, test, comment, protect, and lock, but also other important tools such as scan, convert, or benchmark and hardware test.

You can create compression profiles in order to optimize your activity. Winrar has also an inbuilt viewer for viewing the content of text files within archives. You can use a lot of service functions, such as encryption, archive comments, error logging, etc. Using Winrar you can create multivolume archives, self-extracting archives (also multivolume) using the default or optional SFX modules. It doesn't only open rar files, it can also handle non RAR archives (7-Zip, ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LZH, TAR, UUE, Z, GZip) management, solid archiving which can raise compression ratio by 10% - 50% over more common methods, particularly when packing a large number of small, similar files. Winrar features wizards for beginners and command line interface for advanced users. You can now handle archives directly from Windows Explorer due to the shell integration including drag-and-drop facility and cascaded context menus. It supports RAR and ZIP 2.0 archives, special algorithms optimized for text, audio, graphics, 32-bit and 64-bit Intel executables compression. Winrar archiver is a powerful tool which allows you to create, manage, and control archive files.

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