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WinRAR 3.90 Change Log

• WinRAR version for Windows x64 is available. If you use Windows x64, it is strongly recommended to install 64 bit WinRAR version. It provides a higher performance and better shell integration than 32 bit version.
• RAR compression speed is improved for multi-core and multi-CPU systems. This improvement is most noticeable in Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. 'Remove duplicate folders from extraction path' option in 'Settings/Compression' dialog is replaced by more universal 'Remove redundant folders from extraction path' option. This option will eliminate redundant archive name based folders from extraction path if you unpack an archive with 'Extract to DestName' context menu command and if archive root folder contains only one folder and no files.
• Changes in 'Extraction path and options' dialog:
• 'New folder' button creates a new subfolder in currently selected folder;
• F2 key renames a selected folder in the folders tree;
• F5 key updated the tree pane contents;
• Del key removes a selected folder in the folders tree.
• You can enable 'Show seconds' option in 'Settings/File list' dialog if you wish to see seconds in file dates in file list in WinRAR shell.
• 'Where to check for SFX archives' options group in 'Settings/Integration/Context menus items' dialog lets you to control processing of SFX archives in context menus. For example, if you frequently right click '.exe' files on slow network disks, you can turn off 'Network disks' options to minimize the delay before displaying the context menu.
• If you sort files by name in the file list in WinRAR shell, WinRAR will use the new logical file name sorting, same as in Windows Explorer, considering digits in file names by their numerical value. So files will be sorted as 1.txt, 2.txt, 10.txt instead of previous 1.txt, 10.txt, 2.txt. This new sort behavior is available in Windows XP Service Pack 2 and newer.
• Ctrl+W key combination can be used to close the main WinRAR window also as WinRAR viewer windows. 'View as Windows text' shortcut in WinRAR viewer changed from Ctrl+W to Ctrl+I.
• New command line switch -r- disables recursion completely. So 'rar a -r- arc dirname' command will add only the empty dirname folder and ignore its contents. By default, if dirname does not include wildcards, RAR adds its contents even if -r switch is not specified.
• If used when extracting, the new command line switch -ai forces RAR to ignore file attributes. When using this switch, extracted files will always have attributes assigned by operating system to a newly created file by default.
• If output file name is not specified in 'cw' command, console RAR will send comment data to stdout.
• When compressing stdin data with -si[name] switch, RAR sets modification time of archived entry to current system time. Previous RAR versions did not fill this field, resulting in meaningless modification time for stdin.
• Message displayed when you place the mouse cursor on WinRAR tray icon includes the archive name now. Previously only time left and total percent were displayed for archiving operations.
• New 'Shutdown' variable in 'SoftwareWinRARPolicy' registry key allows to disable 'Turn PC off when done' option for security reasons. Read 'Configuration settings/Registry variables' for more details.
• Better shell extension performance. Now WinRAR context menu will be more responsive when working with thousands of selected files.
• Improved compatibility with high DPI Windows display mode.
• Bugs fixed:
• WinRAR could fail to open tar or tar.gz archive if such archive contained a file larger than 8 GB;
• WinRAR context menu did not work properly in Windows 7 beta if icons in context menus were enabled and user clicked a file inside of Windows 7 Library folder;
• Previous WinRAR versions failed to rename files having 5 or more continuous spaces in the name. WinRAR shell does not display such spaces for safety reasons, because they can hide an actual file extension. But this security measure prevented the rename command to work properly.

And WinRAR will use its default save location as the destination path. 'Report' command allows to select HTML, Unicode text and usual text; as output format for report file. Unlike previous WinRAR versions, now WinRAR preservers Unicode characters in reports when using HTML; or Unicode text format. So non-English characters in file names. WinRAR failed to display non-English file names in 7-Zip archives properly if they used a non-default code page. It was the display only problem, such names were unpacked correctly. WinRAR 4.01 (x64) Screenshots.

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Winrar archiver is a powerful tool which allows you to create, manage, and control archive files.
It supports RAR and ZIP 2.0 archives, special algorithms optimized for text, audio, graphics, 32-bit and 64-bit Intel executables compression. You can now handle archives directly from Windows Explorer due to the shell integration including drag-and-drop facility and cascaded context menus. Winrar features wizards for beginners and command line interface for advanced users. It doesn't only open rar files, it can also handle non RAR archives (7-Zip, ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, GZ, ISO, JAR, LZH, TAR, UUE, Z, GZip) management, solid archiving which can raise compression ratio by 10% - 50% over more common methods, particularly when packing a large number of small, similar files.
Using Winrar you can create multivolume archives, self-extracting archives (also multivolume) using the default or optional SFX modules. You can use a lot of service functions, such as encryption, archive comments, error logging, etc. Winrar has also an inbuilt viewer for viewing the content of text files within archives. You can create compression profiles in order to optimize your activity.
Winrar has a very friendly user interface, so that the menus are customizable and offer access to important archive commands like extract, test, comment, protect, and lock, but also other important tools such as scan, convert, or benchmark and hardware test.
Pluses: There are several versions of RAR, for a number of operating environments: Windows 32 bit and 64 bit, Linux, FreeBSD, DOS, OS/2, MacOS X. You can test, lock and repair/recover physically damaged archives or volumes allowing to reconstruct missing parts of multivolume archives. You can also take advantage of miscellaneous options such as Background archiving, turn PC off when done, compression estimation.

Among the new features of Winrar we may mention: new buttons (options) such as: 'Define volume sizes...', 'Rename automatically', 'Multithreading' option added to 'Benchmark and hardware test' command, new command lines, increased compression speed (5 -15%) for some data types. The publisher states that they fixed some bugs in the multithreaded text compression algorithm.
The speed versus the rate of compression came out as medium compared to WinAce and WinZip: a directory containing multimedia and text files in total size of 104 Mb compressed at a normal rate by Winrar resulted in a 64 Mb in 51 seconds compared to 76,2 Mb in 17 seconds for WinZip and 64,2 Mb in 1 minute and 11 seconds for WinAce.
Drawbacks / flaws:
In conclusion: A good compression over a quite short archiving time sets WinRAR in a very good position among the well known archivers. The program is a very good and reliable archiving solution.

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