Support for a lot of compression formats is provided by WinRAR: RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, JAR, Z and 7-Zip.

The one that novices will like the most is the Wizard button – it launches a wizard that lets you do three tasks efficiently and rapidly: unpack an existing archive, create a new archive, or add files to an existing archive. On the WinRAR's interface you will find nice large buttons at the top for all the application’s main functions: Add (create archive), Extract to (select where you want to extract the contents of an archive), Test (test an archive), and several other buttons.

While the size of these installation files varies, they are all smaller than 2MB. The aforementioned 1.4MB installation file is the 32-bit Windows edition of WinRAR there’s a 64-bit edition as well, many localized versions, and there are versions for Mac OS X and Linux as well. Going through the steps presented by the setup wizard will also take little of your time. Speaking about that, it will take very little time to download the WinRAR installation file as it’s only 1.4MB large. This comes in handy when you want to save space (archive data so it takes up less space) and when you download archives from the web (data is archived so it takes less time for the download to complete).

It is quite simple to explain what sort of functionality WinRAR offers: you can use the application to create archives and you can use it to extract data from archives. Many years have passed and the tool has become better and better and built up a reputation for a properly good software application, a must have for any computer user. It was back in 1995 that the file archiver and data compression tool WinRAR was released to the public.

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