what is WINRAR, and what is extract/unzip the file ? and what is use of WIN RAR ?  

WinRAR is a shareware file archiver and data compression utility by Eugene Roshal. It is arguably one of the two main file archive programs .

WinRAR is a powerful archive manager.

It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.

You may try WinRAR before buy, its trial version is available in downloads.

Answered by Smarty at 2:18 PM on May 02, 2008

chirag WinRAR is a shareware file archiver and data compression utility by Eugene Roshal. It is arguably one of the two main file archive programs

Answered by raj u at 1:57 PM on May 02, 2008

WinRAR is a 32-bit Windows version of RAR Archiver, the powerful archiver and archive manager. WinRARs main features are very strong general and multimedia compression, solid compression, archive protection from damage, processing of ZIP and other non-RAR archives, scanning archives for viruses, programmable self-extracting archives(SFX), authenticity verification, NTFS and Unicode support, strong AES encryption, support of multivolume archives, command line and graphical interface, drag-and-drop facility, wizard interface, theme support, folder tree panel, multithread support and Windows x64 shell integration.
Powerful archiver and archive manager. RAR files can usually compress content 8 to 30 percent better than ZIP files. Main features are strong compression, processing of non-RAR archives, long filename support, self-extracting archives and more

Answered by Kajal Sharma at 5:40 PM on April 28, 2008

Well, WinRAR is a competing product to WinZip; both products compress/decompress and archive files.

Files compressed with WinRAR typically have the .rar extension, as opposed to .zip for WinZip archives. WinRAR can also create and decompress a WinZip archived file.

Like later versions of WinZip, WinRAR has the ability to create archives in multiple parts; that is, it not only can compress a file but can split it up into smaller parts. In WinZip, this is called a "split Zip file"; in WinRAR, this is called a "multipart" or "multivolume" archive. When this is done, the extensions for the smaller RAR files end up being .r00, .r01, and so forth, with the first file just having the .rar extension. To decompress a multipart archive, you simply have to ensure that all the component files (.rar, .r00, .r01, etc.) are in the same directory. When you double-click the .rar file, all other files are automatically found by WinRAR without you having to select them, and the final decompressed file is automatically assembled from all those files.

WinRAR is a powerful archive manager.

It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.

You may try WinRAR before buy, its trial version is available in downloads.

Answered by ajay kumar at 7:09 AM on April 27, 2008

Hi Chirag

WinRAR is a 32-bit Windows version of RAR Archiver, the powerful archiver and archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format. WinRARs main features are very strong general and multimedia compression, solid compression, archive protection from damage, processing of ZIP and other non-RAR archives, scanning archives for viruses, programmable self-extracting archives(SFX), authenticity verification, NTFS and Unicode support, strong AES encryption, support of multivolume archives, command line and graphical interface, drag-and-drop facility, wizard interface, theme support, folder tree panel, multithread support and Windows x64 shell integration. Archive file formats supported are ZIP, RAR, ACE, CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, BZ2, UUE, JAR, ISO, 7Z and Z.

For more information & to download the evaluation copy, visit http://www.win-rar.com.

Thanks n regards, Suparn@

Answered by Suparn@ at 12:25 AM on April 27, 2008

WinRAR and WinZip are two compression tools/softwares. Large file can be compressed to a certain extent. For WinRAR you Unrar the files and for WinZip you Unzip the files.

Answered by Chaitanya at 11:24 PM on April 26, 2008

WinRAR is a competing product to WinZip; both products compress/decompress and archive files. Files compressed with WinRAR typically have the .rar extension, as opposed to .zip for WinZip archives. WinRAR can also create and decompress a WinZip archived file.

Like later versions of WinZip, WinRAR has the ability to create archives in multiple parts; that is, it not only can compress a file but can split it up into smaller parts. In WinZip, this is called a "split Zip file"; in WinRAR, this is called a "multipart" or "multivolume" archive. When this is done, the extensions for the smaller RAR files end up being .r00, .r01, and so forth, with the first file just having the .rar extension. To decompress a multipart archive, you simply have to ensure that all the component files (.rar, .r00, .r01, etc.) are in the same directory. When you double-click the .rar file, all other files are automatically found by WinRAR without you having to select them, and the final decompressed file is automatically assembled from all those files.

Answered by Bishan Preet at 11:16 PM on April 26, 2008

1. What is a RAR file
RAR is the native format of WinRAR archiver. Like other archives, RAR files are data containers, they store one or several files in the compressed form. After you downloaded RAR file from Internet, you need to unpack its contents in order to use it.

2. How to handle RAR files
WinRAR provides the complete support for RAR files, so you may both create and unpack them. If you installed WinRAR on your computer and downloaded RAR file from Internet, you may double click on RAR file icon to open it in WinRAR, select all files, press "Extract To" button, enter a destination path and press "OK". Another way is to click on the RAR file in Explorer using the right mouse button. If you enabled "Shell integration" option when installing WinRAR, the file context menu will contain "Extract to ..." item.

Some RAR files can be parts of multi-volume sequences. In WinRAR you can split a huge archive to a few smaller files, which are called volumes. They may have extensions .rar (the first volume), .r00, .r01, ..., or .part1.rar (the first volume), .part2.rar, ..., etc. If you need to unpack volumes, place all them to the same folder and start extraction from the first volume.

3. RAR versus ZIP
Comparing to ZIP file format, RAR provides a number of advanced features: more convenient multipart (multivolume) archives, tight compression including special solid, multimedia and text modes, strong AES-128 encryption, recovery records helping to repair an archive even in case of physical data damage, Unicode support to process non-English file names and a lot more.

Answered by Shilpa Behl at 11:06 PM on April 26, 2008

WinRAR is a 32-bit Windows version of RAR Archiver, an archiver and archive manager. RAR files can usually compress content by 8 percent to 15 percent more than ZIP files can. WinRAR's main features include strong general and multimedia compression, the ability to process non-RAR archive formats, ZIP compression and decompression, support for long filenames, programmable self-extracting archives (SFX), repair of damaged archives, authenticity verification, embedded file comments, and encryption. Unicode is supported in archive filenames, allowing non-English filenames to be handled painlessly. You can manipulate the parameters of many archives at once and view a volume sequence as a single archive. WinRAR can convert other archive formats to RAR and search for specified text and files in archives.
Version 3.71 corrects several bugs and improves processing of corrupt RAR archives.
Zip is the reverse of Unzip.
Unzipping is the process of converting a zip file back to the original document, and converting that file back to its normal file size.

Answered by jaivir at 8:18 PM on April 26, 2008

WinRAR is a competing product to WinZip; both products compress/decompress and archive files. Files compressed with WinRAR typically have the .rar extension, as opposed to .zip for WinZip archives. WinRAR can also create and decompress a WinZip archived file.

Like later versions of WinZip, WinRAR has the ability to create archives in multiple parts; that is, it not only can compress a file but can split it up into smaller parts. In WinZip, this is called a "split Zip file"; in WinRAR, this is called a "multipart" or "multivolume" archive. When this is done, the extensions for the smaller RAR files end up being .r00, .r01, and so forth, with the first file just having the .rar extension. To decompress a multipart archive, you simply have to ensure that all the component files (.rar, .r00, .r01, etc.) are in the same directory. When you double-click the .rar file, all other files are automatically found by WinRAR without you having to select them, and the final decompressed file is automatically assembled from all those files.

To extract is to return a compressed file to its original state. Typically in order to view the contents of a compressed file, you must extract it first.

Unzipping is the process of converting a zip file back to the original document, and converting that file back to its normal file size.

Winrar like WinZip is used to compress files for storage and for sending as email attachments. Compressing reduces the size of the file but the file remains the same when uncompressed. Winrar compresses files in mulitple formats.
I prefer Winrar

Winrar is a very powerful tool that can handle large files. It can handle files as big as 850 billion gigabyte. Winrar allows you to create multiple files and self extracting files.

Winrar supports rar, zip, cab, lzh,tar, gz, ace, uue, bz2, jar, iso, 7z, and z formats.

Answered by keshto at 7:58 PM on April 26, 2008