Rarsoft WinRAR

Pros: WinRAR: advanced compression, supports ZIP, advanced other features, cheaper
Cons: none

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...

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)

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...

Pros: Fast, high compression ratio, and lots of options to fine-tune your archives.
Cons: Somewhat PC guru-oriented.

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 ...

Pros: Great compression technology, a lot of user-friendly features
Cons: Not very common compared to ZIP format compressor

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...

Pros: Better than Winzip in almost every way.
Cons: Uses a non-standard compression routine making it worthless for many.

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...

Pros: efficient compression, intuitive interface, reads zip files
Cons: rar files cannot be read by WinZip

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)...

Pros: compression quality, decompression speed
Cons: no cross-platform compatibility with certain things

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....

Pros: Good large file support, reliability, noticeably less operation errors
Cons: Not refined and "pretty" like that of Winzip

Though it looks like and old, early '90s program, Winrar is up to today's standards of compression. It's a fast compressor/decompressor and it supports large-file compression better than any other Windows compression utility that I know of. Also,...

Pros: Easy to use, Supports many formats (besides JUST .Zip)
Cons: Somewhat Costly

WinRAR is a very easy to use file compression utility. It has almost a Windows Explorer style interface and is just as easy to use. It can support, .Zip, .Rar, .Cab, .Arj, and, .Lzh extensions. (It can only modify or change ZIP and RAR file, although...

Pros: Easy to use, fast and effective
Cons: .rar format is not widely known

WinRAR is the best compression software you can use. I love this thing. It is head and shoulders above WinZip and every other compression program I have tried. WinRAR supports a lot of different compression formats and is very easy to use. You can...

Pros: Fast, easy to use.
Cons: None

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...

Pros: versatile, easy to use, becoming a standard
Cons: gui interface ugly

when i was looking for the best compression possible to transfer large video files via my network and over the internet, i realized that there were a lot of choices out there

one could try their hand at the very popular winzip which as the...

Pros: Opens more file types than WinZip.
Cons: It is extremely SLOW. Doesn't support ALL of the many different file types out there.

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...

Pros: Powerful, File Splitting, Easy
Cons: None!

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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Pros: It works, it's free
Cons: Nothing comes to mind

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...