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WinRAR

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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.

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

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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 sections
Contents
  • 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.

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