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RARLAB WinRAR 3.61

Last updated
January 18, 2007

Reviewed by
Lincoln Spector

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Price when rated - $29
Design and usability - Very Good: 85 Ease of archive creation - Very Good Ease of archive extraction - Superior Documentation - Fair
Performance - Superior: 90 Compressed test-file size - 89% Archive-creation speed - Very Good
Features - Fair: 61 Supported archive-creation formats - .rar, .zip Supported archive-exctraction formats - .rar, .zip, .7z, .arj, .tar, .gz, .tar, .ace, .lzh, .z, .iso disc images, encoded files (uuencode, xxencode, yENC, BinHex, MIME) Encryption options - AES-128 Tool for searching within archives - Yes Automated backups - Yes Help wizards - Yes Command-line support - Yes Self-extracting executable creation - Yes Split-volume creation - Yes Integrated image preview - No Microsoft Office integration - No Integrated FTP capabilities - No Customizable interface/skin support - Yes Supported operating systems - Windows 95, 98/Me, NT, 2000, XP Multiple language versions available - Yes