WinRAR, one of the most popular file compression tools for windows users, is a basic PC application of compression and decompression for all formats of data (files, music, videos, folders, etc.). With WinRAR, the users can reduce the size of documents and upload documents with less time. It can run on almost any versions of Windows, from Windows 95 to Win 7. Besides, it has great compatibility that supports most of file compression formats, such as RAR, 7Z, ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LZH, TAR and so on. They are the file compression formats that are most frequently-used. WinRAR can set up multiple self-extracting Zip files, which many other similar products do not support.
WinRAR is available in over 45 languages, including English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Portuguese, Spanish and more.
Apart from the standard features, WinRAR provides some additional options. It allows each document be secured by a password without which the document cannot be opened. If the user set a properly complex password, the application will secure the file with the use of AES (Advanced Encryption Standard), which promises that the password cannot be cracked by most of decrypting applications. Although in the process of compression WinRAR draws on considerable amounts of the system resources, its flexibility is able to adjust itself to individual’s computer capabilities and environment so as to make it smoothly run on some less advanced computers.