• Using WinRAR puts you ahead of the crowd when it comes to compression by consistently making smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs.
• WinRAR provides complete support for RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives.
• WinRAR offers a graphic interactive interface utilizing mouse and menus as well as the command line interface.
• When you purchase WinRAR license you are buying a license to the complete technology, no need to purchase add-ons to create self-extracting files, it's all included.
• WinRAR is easier to use than many other archivers with the inclusion of a special "Wizard" mode which allows instant access to the basic archiving functions through a simple question and answer procedure. This avoids confusion in the early stages of use.
• WinRAR offers you the benefit of industry strength archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a key of 128 bits.
• WinRAR supports files and archives up to 8,589 billion gigabytes in size. The number of archived files is, for all practical purposes, unlimited.
• WinRAR offers the ability to create selfextracting and multivolume archives.
• Recovery record and recovery volumes allow to reconstruct even physically damaged archives.
• WinRAR features are constantly being developed to keep WinRAR ahead of the pack.

FEATURES

• Packing (creation) of RAR or ZIP archives.
• Unpacking of ACE, ARJ, BZIP2, CAB, EXE, GZ, ISO, JAR, LHA, RAR, TAR, UUE, XZ, Z, ZIP, ZIPX, 7z, 001 (split) archives.
• Checksum (integrity) verification for ACE, ARJ, BZIP2, CAB, GZ, BZIP2, RAR, XZ, ZIP and 7z archives.
• Multithreaded CPU compression and decompression.

When creating RAR archives:

• Support for maximum file size of 16 EiB (264 bytes) minus 1.
• Compression dictionary from 1 MiB to 1 GiB (limited to 256 MiB on 32-bit Windows, however 32-bit Windows still can decompress archives with 1 GiB dictionary). Default size is 32 MiB.
• Optional 256-bit BLAKE2 file hash can replace default 32-bit CRC32 file checksum.
• Optional encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a 256-bit key.
• Optional data redundancy is provided in the form of Reed-Solomon recovery records and recovery volumes, allowing reconstruction of damaged archives (including reconstruction of entirely missed volumes).
• Optional "Quick Open Record" to open RAR files faster.
• Ability to create multi-volume (split) archives
• Ability to create self-extracting files. The self-extractor can execute commands, such as running a specified program automatically after self-extraction.
• Support for advanced NTFS file system options, such as NTFS hard and symbolic links.
• Support for maximum path length up to 2048 characters (stored in the UTF-8 format).
• Optional archive comment (stored in the UTF-8 format).
• Optional file time stamp preservation: creation, last access, high precision modification times.
• Optional files deduplication.