WinRAR

WinRAR is one of the most commonly used and most appreciated applications for creating file archives. It is popular around the world, regardless of the country. It is able to handle not only RAR archives, but also ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, Z, as well as 7-Zip. As we can see, this is a very functional application, which can be used in many different situations. With this application installed, we can be sure that we will be able to open archives saved in all the most popular compression formats.WinRAR, as many other applications of this kind, allows for creating self-extracting archives, as well as for securing our files with passwords, so that they cannot be extracted by unauthorized users. In order to unpack such a secured archive, we need to know the special key.Compression of data allows for saving much of the hard disk space. Sometimes, this application helps us to reduce the size of the file even by half, which can be really important in the situation when we have many movies, music, photographs or any other kinds of data stored on the hard disk. The very use of this application is obviously very easy. The menu is intuitive, and in order to compress a file we just have to right-click the file and choose the right option or find the appropriate command in the active application window. It is worth to try out this software, so we can see for ourselves how it can help us.