- WinRAR introduces an original compression algorithm. It allows higher compression ratios than other PC archiving tools, especially for executable files, object libraries, large text files, etc.
- WinRAR offers an optional compression algorithm highly optimized for multimedia data.
- WinRAR supports files and archives up to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 bytes in size, about 9000PB. The number of archived files is unlimited for all practical purposes.
- WinRAR provides complete support for RAR and ZIP 2.0 archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, Z, 7Z archives.
- WinRAR supports NTFS file security and data streams.
- WinRAR offers both a classic interactive Windows interface and the command line interface.
- WinRAR provides functionality for creating a ’solid’ archive, which can raise the compression ratio by 10% - 50% over more common methods, particularly when packing large numbers of small files.
- WinRAR offers the ability to create and change SFX archives using default and external SFX modules.
- WinRAR offers the ability to create a multi-volume archive as SFX.
