Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Mar 02 '01
Pros: WinRAR: advanced compression, supports ZIP, advanced other features, cheaper
Cons: none
Summary: I recently read here a review of WinZIP where the reviewer wished WinZIP should improve its compression technology. My thought was that Niko Mak, the author of WinZIP - to my knowledge - never developed compression technology, only a shell. For long I ... read more
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Mar 07 '08
Pros: Fast, high compression ratio, and lots of options to fine-tune your archives.
Cons: Somewhat PC guru-oriented.
Summary: We live in a age of information. Large quantities of them. So much, in fact, that most of them comes compressed already. MP3, AVI, MPG, and DivX... media files that SHOULD be, in their own rights, bloated. But thanks to compression technology, their ... read more
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Oct 11 '02
Pros: Opens more file types than WinZip.
Cons: It is extremely SLOW. Doesn't support ALL of the many different file types out there.
Summary: When I first got my computer about two years ago, I bought and used WinZip because I didn't know any better. I had been using WinZip for two years until last week when I got rid of it for good. Last week I downloaded a file over the internet and WinZip ... read more
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Aug 24 '01
Pros: It works, it's free
Cons: Nothing comes to mind
Summary: WinRAR is a good extraction utility; my copy is an evaluation version, usable for 40 days.
What's extraction? Extraction is the process of creating files ( in their normal state ) from files that have compressed....what's a compressed file? A ... read more
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Jun 04 '01
Pros: Better than Winzip in almost every way.
Cons: Uses a non-standard compression routine making it worthless for many.
Summary: Winrar is an unusual item to see reviewed. It seems to be primarily used by software pirates who prefer its numerous advantages over Winzip for large archives. They like it more specifically because it makes it very easy to span a large compressed file ... read more
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Mar 14 '01
Pros: Choose your own compression. Great overall program.
Cons: Not very popular
Summary: Everybody comes across files that are zipped and that require a program to unzip them. Zipped files are all over the internet since the conserve storage space and bandwidth. But what program should you use with these files?
WinRAR is my ... read more
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Mar 14 '01
Pros: Powerful, File Splitting, Easy
Cons: None!
Summary: I have been using WinRar for almost a Month now and I must say I am impressed !
WinRAR showed better compression than WinZip (You can try it, too, get use WinZip on a File and use WinRar on another File ... Which Size is the smaller ?)
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Mar 12 '01
Pros: Great compression technology, a lot of user-friendly features
Cons: Not very common compared to ZIP format compressor
Summary: My old computer has only 2.5G hard drive, and have neither zip drive nor CD-RW. When I bought the computer 4 years ago, this hard drive size was not bad at all. However, these days, the files and software I work on are getting very large in files. I ... read more
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Mar 10 '01
Pros: Versatile; efficient; control over compression; no cutesy heart icon
Cons: "Umm... what's a .rar file???"
Summary: WinRAR is one of those 'killer apps' that will charm you from any angle. It's less than 300k in size. It's reliable -- two years of use now and it has NEVER crashed. I'm in love with the speed and ease of use that its Windows shell integration (meaning ... read more
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Aug 28 '00
Pros: Compresses a lot more than winzip
Cons: Confusing at first
Summary: This compression utility is the best out there. It compresses so much more than winzip does. It is great. You can compress one file into so many files so u can put it onto a floppy, I once stored 20 meg application onto 17 disks because of winrar. It ... read more
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May 14 '00
Pros: Creates Zip & Rar archives - option of multiple files for one archive, shareware, speed, compression ratio
Cons: The price is high (But it's shareware so you can try it first)
Summary: WinRar is intended to be a catch-all compression utility that recognizes all standard compressed file formats. You may have heard of the compression software named WinZip, but I’d be willing to wager that a majority of you have never heard ... read more
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May 11 '00
Pros: efficient compression, intuitive interface, reads zip files
Cons: rar files cannot be read by WinZip
Summary: WinZip is the leader in compression software. Because of the large size of files these days, some genius figured out how to compress a file for easy storage and or for sending electronically. What this product does is to translate the (files) ... read more
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Apr 13 '00
Pros: easy, quick, solid
Cons: isn't *the* standard yet :-(
Summary: I often asked myself which compression method was better, ZIP or RAR. After using both for a while I decided that RAR is much better in use. RAR has a simple system when compressing to multiple files. It gives the names .RAR, .R01, .R02 etc. With ZIP all ... read more
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Apr 01 '00
Pros: compression quality, decompression speed
Cons: no cross-platform compatibility with certain things
Summary: My experience with the RAR archiving format began many years ago, and since I discovered it, I have not stopped using it. RAR was developed by a Russian man in the mid-1990s, and when I first used it, I was incredibly amazed at its compression ability. ... read more
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Mar 05 '00
Pros: Fast, easy to use.
Cons: None
Summary: WinRAR is a very nice program, in that it will compress, and decompress any type of compression that you can run into, on a Windows PC. I have yet to give it a whirl on a .tgz file of a file of that sort. It is very similar to winzip, but i say it ... read more
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