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WinRAR Version 3.90 Final Release
WinRAR is a 32-bit and 64-bit Windows version of the RAR Archiver, the powerful archiver and archive manager. RAR files can usually compress content up to 30 percent more effectively than ZIP files. WinRARs most important functions include extremely powerful document and multimedia file compression, processing of other archive formats, long filename support, programmable self-extracting archives (SFK), damaged archive repair, authenticity verification, embedded file comments, and archive encryption. The command line version of RAR is available for Linux, DOS, OS/2, FreeBSD and MAC OS X. Pocket RAR, the free WinRAR version for Pocket PCs, WinRAR for U3, and the new WinRAR Unplugged complete the WinRAR product range.
WinRAR - What's
new in the latest version
- WinRAR version for Windows x64 is available. If you use Windows x64, it is strongly recommended to
install 64 bit WinRAR version. It provides a higher performance and better shell integration than 32 bit version.
- RAR compression speed is improved for multi-core and multi-CPU systems. This improvement is most noticeable inWindows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.
- "Remove duplicate folders from extraction path" option in Settings/Compression" dialog is replaced by more universal Remove redundant folders from extraction path" option. This option will eliminate redundant archive name based folders from extraction path if you unpack an archive with "Extract to DestName\" context menu command and if archive root folder contains only one folder and no files.
- Changes in "Extraction path and options" dialog:
a) "New folder" button creates a new subfolder in currently selected folder;
b) F2 key renames a selected folder in the folders tree;
c) F5 key updated the tree pane contents;
d) Del key removes a selected folder in the folders tree.
- You can enable "Show seconds" option in "Settings/File list" dialog if you wish to see seconds in file dates in
file list in WinRAR shell.
- "Where to check for SFX archives" options group in "Settings/Integration/Context menus items" dialog lets you
to control processing of SFX archives in context menus. For example, if you frequently right click ".exe" files on slow network disks, you can turn off "Network disks" options to minimize the delay before displaying the context menu.
- If you sort files by name in the file list in WinRAR shell, WinRAR will use the new logical file name sorting, same
as in Windows Explorer, considering digits in file names by their numerical value. So files will be sorted as 1.txt,
2.txt, 10.txt instead of previous 1.txt, 10.txt, 2.txt. This new sort behavior is available in Windows XP Service
Pack 2 and newer.
- Ctrl+W key combination can be used to close the main WinRAR window also as WinRAR viewer windows. "View as Windows text" shortcut in WinRAR viewer changed from Ctrl+W to Ctrl+I.
- New command line switch -r- disables recursion completely. So 'rar a -r- arc dirname' command will add only the
empty dirname folder and ignore its contents. By default, if dirname does not include wildcards, RAR adds its contents even if -r switch is not specified.
- If used when extracting, the new command line switch -ai forces RAR to ignore file attributes. When using this
switch, extracted files will always have attributes assigned by operating system to a newly created file by default.
- If output file name is not specified in "cw" command, console RAR will send comment data to stdout.
- When compressing stdin data with -si[name] switch, RAR sets modification time of archived entry to current
system time. Previous RAR versions did not fill this field, resulting in meaningless modification time for stdin.
- Message displayed when you place the mouse cursor on WinRAR tray icon includes the archive name now.
Previously only time left and total percent were displayed for archiving operations.
- New 'Shutdown' variable in 'Software\WinRAR\Policy' registry key allows to disable "Turn PC off when done"
option for security reasons. Read "Configuration settings/Registry variables" for more details.
- Better shell extension performance. Now WinRAR context menu will be more responsive when working with
thousands of selected files.
- Improved compatibility with high DPI Windows display mode.
- Bugs fixed:
a) WinRAR could fail to open tar or tar.gz archive if such archive contained a file larger than 8 GB;
b) WinRAR context menu did not work properly in Windows 7 beta if icons in context menus were enabled and user clicked a file inside of Windows 7 Library folder;
c) previous WinRAR versions failed to rename files having 5 or more continuous spaces in the name. WinRAR shell does not display such spaces for safety reasons, because they can hide an actual file extension. But this security measure prevented the rename command to work properly.
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