What is WinRAR and what does it basically do?

Answer 1

Simple answer: It's a packaging program. It lets you take files out of certain types of packaging files and put files into them. Without this software you may not be able to open certain packages.

Details:
WinRAR is an archiver. It can be used to create and extract 'archive' files.

An archive file is a package file that contains other files and folders. It is sort of like a mail package; it is hard to determine the contents inside without taking a look. The reason most people create archives are the same as mail packages, to make it easier to deliver/move.

An example of common archive formats are ZIP and RAR. The most important difference is that your archiver needs to understand the format to open or create it.

Archives also have the advantage of being compressed (meaning it is usually smaller than the original), but once decompressed it will return to it's original size. (Kind of like those magic closets you see in movies). RAR supposedly has better compression level.

Other features of archives include password protection, splitting into several archives (to fit on a floppy disk), self-extracting (lets you decompress without an archiver), and more.

WinRAR is such a program that lets you create and decompress these files/packages.

If you're looking for a free archiver program, there is one called 7zip which supports zip, rar, and 7z (supposed to be the best compression).

There is more/different information available at the source page.

Hope this helps,
Ken

Answer 2

WinRAR is a file compression utility, which can be used to compress large files and uncompress the already compressed files. Many times while transfering data from one computer to another either with a CD or floppy or even over the net, the files to be transferred may become just too bulky and large. This is when file compression utilities come to use. They are capable of reducing the file-size by 30-80%, and thus help in faster transfers. Once they have reached their destination, the files can be uncompressed to their normal size. There are many file compression utilities, the two most popular ones being WinZip (you must have heard of it) and WinRAR. WinZip uses the extension .zip, while WinRAR uses .rar extension. Thus, .rar files cannot be uncompressed by WinZip and .zip files do not work in WinRAR. Again. both these are not free. You have got to buy them. But there is a file compressor, which not only works for .zip and .rar, but also for many other extensions, and is FREE! It is AlZip, you may get it from:
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/ALZip/1097479556/1

Answer 3

what's the blunders message? WinRAR ought to open a zip report no difficulty as long because it quite is not corrupt. It seems such as you have a corrupt zip report. additionally do you recognize what the final 3 letters of the filename is e.g. game.ZIP or game.RAR. in case you won't be able to work out the final 3 letters open up abode windows Explorer (My computing gadget), click the kit menu, then Folder strategies, click the View tab and untick the field in stepped forward settings labelled "conceal extensions for huge-unfold report varieties". additionally no rely if that's a ideal WinRAR report in case you top click on it WinRAR ought to have an determination of "Extract to..." sub menu, if no longer it quite is in all danger a corrupt report, or probably an endemic.

Answer 4

It is a file compression program like PKZIP but it uses a different compression format. It allows you to bundle 1 or more files into a compressed file and password protect them if you so choose.

Before you can get the files back out you have to run WinRAR again to decompress them back into their original form.

Answer 5

Hey Dudette,

WinRAR is a program much like winzip, gzip, tar, etc. It is quickly becoming the defacto standard for zipping files.

Look at it like this. When you create a document, there is ALL of this white space. White space actually takes up space. What a zipping process does, it eliminate all the white space and replace it with simple commands that remember where the whitespace is, taking up less space overall.

Does that help a little?

Tom

Answer 6

Win RAR is a software that compresses files to make them smaller. Either to save space or e-mail more easily.
You can also put passwords on the files so others cant see them.

Answer 7

winRAR is like winzip but it opens more file extensions than .zip does.

I like winRAR better.

If you want a straight up comparison look here: http://www.rarsoft.com/compare.htm

Answer 8

Software that unrars or rars (rar = compress) files.

Answer 9

it opens compressed files, so that u can access them