30 Apr 2013
WinRAR 5.0 Released With New RAR 5 File Compressing Format
Today RARLAB officially launched the next generation file compressing tool WinRAR 5.0 introducing a new file format RAR 5. WinRAR 5.0 is now in beta stage and you can download both 32bit or 64bit version it from the link at the end of this article.
Not only RARLAB launched WinRAR 5.0 but also providing much stronger file compression algorithm that comes with this new RAR 5 format. So now you can compress a file within three formats .RAR , .ZIP and the new format .RAR 5. Here I want to mention that if a file is compressed in .RAR 5 format then you can only be able to decompress it via WinRAR 5.0 not the older version or any third party software. If you try this you will get an error or corrupted file after decompressing.
Not only RARLAB launched WinRAR 5.0 but also providing much stronger file compression algorithm that comes with this new RAR 5 format. So now you can compress a file within three formats .RAR , .ZIP and the new format .RAR 5. Here I want to mention that if a file is compressed in .RAR 5 format then you can only be able to decompress it via WinRAR 5.0 not the older version or any third party software. If you try this you will get an error or corrupted file after decompressing.
But by default this new WinRAR 5.0 will compress your file within RAR format. If you want to compress it in RAR 5 then you have to choose it. So don’t be afraid to use it. Make one thing clear that RAR 5 is a new format in file compressing world. So if you are sending a file by compressing then its better to compress in old RAR or ZIP format. Hope this new RAR 5 will be as useable as RAR or ZIP , but for that we have to wait.
Download WinRAR 5.0 beta 1 from here
32bit
64bit
(Visited 311 times, 1 visits today)
