Download WinRAR 3.1.1

WinRAR is a 32-bit Windows version of the RAR Archiver. RAR is a proprietary archive file format that supports data compression and file spanning. RAR compression is slightly slower than standard ZIP, but the compression is 8 to 15% better than ZIP compression and can be as much as 50% better than other schemes.

WinRAR has strong general and multimedia compression capablities. It contains ZIP compression and decompression, and it can also process other non-RAR archives formats such as TAR, ACE, BZ2, JAR, and ISO. It supports long file names. It can produce self-extracting archives, and it can convert other formats to RAR. One thing to keep in mind that some of the older versions can not extract the newer version RAR files.

While some people think that the WinRAR interface is too basic, sometimes simple is better. If you want to you can also get skins that will allow you to change the look of the program and give it more pizzazz.

While WinRAR has been around for a while some of the milestones for this product include Version 1.54 adding support for Windows 95. WinRAR Version 2.9 introduced the new RAR3 format that improved the file extension naming when spanning multiple files and it upgraded the encryption algorithm to AES. Version 3.7 added Windows Vista compatibility changes as well as adding better ISO imaging of DVD disks.

Version 3.71 added high DPI display modes compatibility with the WinRAR tray icon. Version 3.80 extended abilities for ZIP archives containing Unicode file names in UTF-8 format, improved Unicode support for RAR and ZIP archive names, and added decompression support for WinZip AES encrypted ZIP archives.

WinRAR is one of those programs that you need if you have a computer system. It is reliable, practical and will do a better job than almost any archiver on the market. If you need to archive your files then you should definitely try WinRAR.