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WinRAR or WinZip is one of the most important software needed for any PC as long as we need to compress or extract files and archieves.WinRAR is able to compress and extract ZIP and RAR files and also other files compressed extension with a high compressing efficiency .WinZip is also a good software but not like WinRAR.

Almost of users need one of these two software ,but in my opinion WinRAR is more efficient and more better than WinZip and if someone have WinRAR he will not need to install WinZip but the opposite can't be because WinZip is unable to extract RAR files which is widely used between users.WinRAR is available with many languages : Albanian, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese Brazilian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian Cyrillic, Serbian Latin, Slovak, Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Valencian.And also it's available for many languages with the pocket version.

Using WinRAR is a good deal because it gives a lot of useful advantages because you can scan your files and you can also protect it using a password to protect some important files.

WinRAR package is more cheaper than WinZip which is also it's considered as an important point for individuals and users who can't handle the WinZip price.

The WinRAR is available for 29$ and gives these following benefits:

- Using WinRAR puts you ahead of the crowd when it comes to compression by consistently making smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs.

- WinRAR provides complete support for RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives.

- WinRAR offers a graphic interactive interface utilizing mouse and menus as well as the command line interface.

- When you purchase WinRAR license you are buying a license to the complete technology, no need to purchase add-ons to create self-extracting files, it's all included. One price, one payment, once.

- You also receive the benefit of a life-time use of the WinRAR archiver. No upgrade fee to pay. When a new release is made, simply download and install, your license is valid for life.

- WinRAR is easier to use than many other archivers with the inclusion of a special "Wizard" mode which allows instant access to the basic archiving functions through a simple question and answer procedure. This avoids confusion in the early stages of use.

- WinRAR offers you the benefit of industry strength archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a key of 128 bits.

- WinRAR supports files and archives up to 8,589 billion gigabytes in size. The number of archived files is, for all practical purposes, unlimited.

- WinRAR offers the ability to create selfextracting and multivolume archives.
Recovery record and recovery volumes allow to reconstruct even physically damaged archives.

- WinRAR features are constantly being developed to keep WinRAR ahead of the pack.

Also if you are a programer WinRAR is useful for you and is working with all of operating systems and it's a good useful tool for you with almost of programming languages.

If you decided to try WinRAR and feel the difference you can try the trial version and you can visit www.rarlab.com to read more about it and to download it.

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