WinRAR
is a lightweight, flexible, and easy-to-use archiving utility that
can unpack most archive formats, as well as compress to both RAR ,
WinRAR is definitely top dog in the compression category.
WinRAR's
interface is about as simple as it gets. Start creating (or add to)
an archive by dragging and dropping your files into the interface or
by browsing through the Folder Tree side panel (when enabled). From
there, the most common functions are laid out in the form of colorful,
mostly intuitive icons, which can all be customized by downloading
themes from the company's Web site. Add files to, Extract, Test,
Delete, or even Repair archives right from the main interface.
Drop-down menus house the program's more advanced features, including
self-extracting archives, archive locking, benchmarking, and
autodeletion of temp files.
In our performance tests, both
creating and unpacking archives was blazingly fast. Compression ratios
varied depending on file type, but in general seemed on par with or
slightly better than other archiving programs. Overall, WinRAR is a
winner because of its speed, simple interface, flexibility with file
formats, and powerful advanced features.
