WinRAR 5.01 Beta 1 (32-bit)

RARLab - (Shareware)

The very popular WinRAR compress any file or folder offering the possibility to protect or to recover them in case of necessity.

WinRAR is a reference in the field of archiving data compression utilities. Based on RAR compression algorithm, it can significantly reduce the size of the documents.

WinRAR is very useful when it comes to open its archives in case the user does not have this software because it can create self-extracting archives.

WinRAR integrates with Windows Explorer and allows to compress and decompress files from the context menu. For mainstream users, this feature may be sufficient, but WinRAR also includes more advanced features such as protection of archives by creating recovery volumes possibilities, adding passwords, test archived files or a module for benchmarking test performance by compressing the computer. The encryption uses the AES (Advanced Encryption Standard ) method with a key of 128 bits.

The application is also able to repair a damaged archive when a network transfer was not completed correctly or the storage medium is faulty. But the program is not limited to RAR and ZIP formats because it allows you to view and extract the contents of archives using less common formats such as ACE , 7 -ZIP , CAB , TAR , ISO, GZIP and BZ2 by instance.

Title:: WinRAR 5.01 Beta 1 (32-bit)
File Size:: 1.7 MB
Requirements:: Windows XP / Vista / Windows7 / Windows8
Language:: en-us
License:: Shareware
Date Added:: 12 Nov 2013
Publisher:: RARLab
Homepage:: http://www.rarsoft.com/
MD5 Checksum:: A4390543ABBD210D491FDE0DCD64477C

# New
* RAR 5.0 archives can include an optional quick open information controlled with -qo[-|+] switch or "Quick open information" options group in archiving dialog. It allows to open the archive contents in WinRAR faster. This version provides better update peformance for archives containing both quick open information and service records, such as NTFS file security. Also default parameters of quick open information are optimized to achieve faster open time for such archives.
# Bugs fixed:
* "Find" command could fail when searching text string in .7z archives;
* when opening RAR 5.0 archive with encrypted file names stored in another such archive, WinRAR could issue an erroneous message that password is incorrect. It happened only if passwords to inner and outer archives were different. It did not affect extraction, all files could be unpacked regardless of this message
* option "Use for all archives" in password dialog did not suppress additional password requests for RAR 5.0 archives with encrypted file names
* WinRAR address bar did not process correctly environment variable based paths, such as %temp%
* storing NTFS file security and alternate data streams did not work for file pathnames longer than 260 characters
* "Test" command could erroneously report damaged data in valid recovery record if only a part of files in RAR 5.0 archive was tested. It did not happen if entire archive contents was tested
* "Test" command erroneously reported errors when verifying RAR 4.x Unix symbolic links
* WinRAR "View" command did not work for files inside of BZIP2 archives
* if "High precision modification time" option in archiving dialog was turned off, WinRAR did not store the modification time at all instead of storing a lower precision time
* destination paths containing .\ or ..\ component did not work when extracting non-RAR archives in WinRAR command line mode;
* WinRAR failed to unpack multivolume CAB archives.