Winrar 3.5 final

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Winrar 3.5 final

Version 3.50

1. Now it is possible to change WinRAR's look by installing

interface themes. Theme files are available on

http://www.rarlab.com/themes.htm

Theme files are RAR archives, just open them in WinRAR to install.

You can manage installed themes using "Options/Themes" menu.

2. WinRAR supports decompression of ZIP archives created using

Zip64 format extension. Zip64 was introduced to remove

original ZIP format limitations on archived file size.

3. Added support of multivolume (multipart) CAB archives.

4. New options in "Advanced" part of extraction dialog:

a) "Delete archive" options allow to delete extracted archives;

"Check authenticity information" option controls processing

of authenticity information in RAR archives.

5. "Wait if other WinRAR copies are active" option

in "Advanced" parts of archiving and extraction dialogs.

If enabled, it waits while other WinRAR copies are creating,

modifying or unpacking an archive and starts the operation

only when other WinRAR tasks are complete. If you are going

to perform several archiving or decompressing tasks, such queued

execution can help to reduce the amount of disk seeks and improve

overall performance.

6. WinRAR is able to integrate to Windows context menus also

on Windows x64 systems.

7. SFX modules:

a) SFX modules are not compressed by UPX anymore, so they are

larger now. UPX compression caused numerous false alerts

by antivirus software. If you wish to use compressed modules,

you can get UPX from http://upx.sourceforge.net and compress

*.sfx files in WinRAR folder;

The default SFX logo can be replaced by a custom bitmap file.

You can do it either with "Load SFX logo from the file" option

in "Text and icon" part of "Advanced SFX options" dialog

or using -iimg command line switch. Note that -iimg is not

supported by console RAR, only GUI WinRAR recognizes it.

This option is not supported in Windows 95, 98 and Me.

Also you cannot use it if you compressed SFX modules by UPX.

c) It is possible to specify user defined SFX icons larger than

32x32 and with any color depth. Like the previous item,

this improvement is valid only if SFX modules are not compressed

by UPX and your operating system is not Windows 9x/Me;

d) DOS.SFX module moved to RAR/DOS32 distributive. If you need

to create DOS SFX archives using WinRAR, just copy DOS.SFX

to WinRAR folder.

8. "Wizard" command allows to specify a password when creating

or updating an archive.

9. Previous WinRAR versions unpacked the complete archive contents

if the user pressed Enter or double clicked on *.exe, *.htm and

*.html files. Now it is possible to define file masks to unpack

everything for. Such masks can be entered on the "Viewer" page

of the "Settings" dialog. For example, if you wish to unpack only

a file under the cursor when you double click on archived HTML file,

remove "*.htm *.html" from this field.

10. Additional file name extensions for archive formats supported

by WinRAR can be specified in the "User defined archive extensions"

field on the "Integration" page of the "Settings" dialog. For example,

if you have files with ".001" extension, which are in RAR format,

you can enter "001" here to associate WinRAR with such files.

11. New "Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color" option

in "File list" page of "Settings" dialog.

12. New "Lock toolbars" option in "General" page of "Settings" dialog

and in the menu displayed after clicking the right mouse button

on the toolbar. "Lock toolbars" prevents accidental toolbar moving

or resizing.

13. "Repair" and "Extract" commands replace invalid characters

(colon, question mark, etc.) by underscore also in file names

in ZIP archives. Previously WinRAR did it only for RAR archives.

14. New -n and -n@ switches set additional include

filters, so only files matching the mask will be processed.

15. New -id[c,d,p,q] switch. Additionally to previously available

-idp switch (disable percentage indicator), switches -idc, -idd

and -idq instruct the console RAR to hide the copyright message,

"Done" message and all information messages.

16. Switch -e+ allows to specify file include attributes mask.

For example, you can use -e+h switch to compress only hidden files.

17. Switch -ver[n] supports the optional 'n' parameter also when

archiving. It limits the maximum number of file versions.

18. If the short name of an already existing file is equal to the long

name of an unpacking file, WinRAR changes the short name of the already

existing file before unpacking. In such situation previous versions

prompted to overwrite the existing file even though long file names

were not equal.

19. Security changes:

a) WinRAR shell does not allow to run *.pif files. Archived PIF

files is one of typical ways for computer viruses to distribute;

WinRAR shell does not allow to run files having 5 or more

continuous spaces in the name. For example, "calc.txt .exe".

Viruses frequently add such spaces to confuse users and hide

the real extension. WinRAR shell removes these continuous spaces

except first and last also when displaying names of such files

in the file list.

20. In Windows XP WinRAR highlights the sorted column in the file list

using the different color, like it is done in Windows Explorer.

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