WinRAR

WinRar for the computer illiterate. It has taken me years to learn things about programs that help my computer experience, and the learning process is a hard one simply because people don't give information in easy terms. Take this program for instance. There are many places on the net that describe its processes and what benefit they are to the user, although none that I have found that can help those people that know very little about technology. I started using WinRar when I noticed that many files I need to send by email need to be made smaller. If you imagine compression in terms of neatness, then you wouldn't be far wrong imagining you want to ...

As those who know me know, I'm fond of downloading large files from the internet. Unfortunately, my own computer isn't online, due to problems with my university's phone network (it's not a BT line so the unlimited time packages aren't available). This naturally leads to problems. Fortunately the university computers have blisteringly fast download rates, so I can download files on these computers and transfer them over to my home machine. For this, I have to use the humble floppy disk - which has a capacity far less than many of the files I download. As such, I need a program capable of splitting a file over a number of disks. My ...

When it comes to file compression, the Zip file is the one that is most well known, but it doen't offer the best compression ratio. WinRar uses a special algorithm to compress files into Rars which are smaller then zips. With the ability to split large files, create multi-disk spanning executables, password protect and even repair files, WinRar is a lot more flexible than WinZip and so more useful in the long term. It can also create and extract from other archives, including zips. The program is easy to use and the interface is clean and uncluttered. WinRar is also multi-format so Rars can be extracted on other operating systems, including ...