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WinRAR
Sign in to saveWinRAR is a trialware file archiver and compression utility for Microsoft Windows, developed by Eugene Roshal of win.rar GmbH (RARLAB) since 1995. It can create and view archives in RAR (a format created by Roshal) or ZIP file formats, and unpack numerous archive file formats. To enable the user to test the integrity of archives, WinRAR embeds CRC-32 or BLAKE2 checksums for each file in each archive. WinRAR supports creating encrypted, multi-part and self-extracting archives.
Key facts
- Software.language
- Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian Cyrillic, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Colombian Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese
- Software.language count
- 50+
- Software.genre
- File archiver
- Software.license
- Trialware
- Software.name
- WinRAR
- Software.logo
- WinRAR Logo and Wordmark.png
- Software.screenshot
- WinRAR 7.10 screenshot.png
- Software.screenshot_size
- 250px
- Software.caption
- Screenshot of the trial version of WinRAR
- Software.latest release version
- 7.20
- Software.operating system
- Windows 7 or later
- Software.platform
- IA-32 (up to v7.01), x64
- Software.size
- 3.4 MB
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mobile app
- Founded by
- Eugene Roshal
- Platform
- Android
- Official website
- www.win-rar.com
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- operating system
- Microsoft Windows
- programmed in
- C++
- copyright license
- proprietary license
- software version identifier
- 7.20
- publication date
- 1995-04-22
- social media followers
- 7330
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Evolution
- Features
- License
- Security
- History
- Versions
- Operating systems support
- See also
- References
- External links
WinRAR is a trialware file archiver and compression utility for Microsoft Windows, developed by Eugene Roshal of win.rar GmbH (RARLAB) since 1995. It can create and view archives in RAR (a format created by Roshal) or ZIP file formats, and unpack numerous archive file formats. To enable the user to test the integrity of archives, WinRAR embeds CRC-32 or BLAKE2 checksums for each file in each archive. WinRAR supports creating encrypted, multi-part and self-extracting archives.
RARLAB also offers a mobile version as freeware for Android under the name RAR for Android. Related programs include command-line utilities RAR and UNRAR which are also released for macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, and in the past for Windows CE, MS-DOS and OS/2.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “WinRAR” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.