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<\/p>\nIf you are a Windows user you probably have WinRAR installed on your computer. WinRAR is the best solution you can find on the internet that will take care of file compression with ease. It is fast, reliable, and in a way, free to use. Let’s have a look at some interesting facts and things you probably didn’t know about WinRAR.<\/p>\n
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This software is regarded as annoyware<\/strong><\/a> by most internet users, a term not used very often. Annoyware is a type of software that constantly reminds users that their trial period has expired and that they should activate it for a small fee. This is not mandatory, just a friendly reminder. Just like freeware software, you can pay if you want to and feel the need to support the developers, or you can choose to use it for free with no consequences. Officially, WinRAR is a Trialware<\/strong>.<\/p>\n This business model allowed WinRAR to become the most widely used file compression software on the market.<\/p>\n To do this you have to:<\/p>\n This is useful if you are moving a large chunk of data via USB.<\/p>\n It is actually owned by his older brother because Eugene has “no time to concern himself with software development and copyright-related issues at the same time.”<\/p>\n If you open it and click on Help and then About WinRAR you should see the logo in front of a sea. Clicking on it will make the waves move. Below it there is a symbol that looks exactly the same as the WinRAR icon. If you click on it it will start to bounce and create some very familiar sounds.<\/p>\n Follow me on Twitter:\u00a0@PatrickDevaney_<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you are a Windows user you probably have WinRAR installed on your computer. WinRAR is the best solution you can find on the internet that will take care of file compression with ease. It is fast, reliable, and in a way, free to use. Let’s have a look at some interesting facts and things … Continue reading “5 things you didn’t know about WinRAR”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":95818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[3250],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-95817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwinrar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328404,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95817\/revisions\/328404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95817"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=95817"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=95817"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=95817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}2. You can see how big the compressed file will be and how long the compression will take.<\/h3>\n
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3. WinRAR can split compressed files into multiple parts.<\/h3>\n
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4. WinRAR is 22 years old and the creator of the software, Eugene Roshal, isn’t the owner of the compression algorithm.<\/h3>\n
5. Winrar hides two easter eggs.<\/h3>\n