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    Winrar 4.0 Final released

    After much wait ultimately the final builds of winrar 4.0 is released.

    What's new on Winrar 4.0--

    1. RAR decompression speed is improved. Depending on data type,
    decompression can be up to 30% faster than in previous versions.

    Both the general RAR algorithm and most of special RAR multimedia
    methods benefit from this improvement. The only module of RAR
    algorithm, which is not affected, is "Text compression" method.

    2. Changes in ISO support:

    a) UDF support is upgraded to UDF 2.50 revision. It makes possible
    to unpack most of Blu-ray ISO files;

    b) when browsing UDF ISO file, UDF revision number is displayed
    after the "UDF" format name in WinRAR address bar
    and in archive information dialog;

    c) WinRAR sets the folder modification date when unpacking folders
    stored in UDF and ISO9660 files.

    3. Changes in password dialog:

    a) WinRAR uses the same format of password dialog both when archiving
    and extracting, so "Show password" option is available also
    when extracting;

    b) "Organize passwords..." button in password dialog provides
    access to password organizer interface, where you can specify
    your frequently used passwords. You will be able to access these
    saved passwords using the drop down list or autocomplete feature
    in password dialog.

    It is important to know that saved passwords are not encrypted
    and anybody having access to your computer can view them.
    Use "Organize passwords" feature only if your computer is
    protected from unauthorized access;

    c) "Use for all archives" option is available in password dialog
    when unpacking several archives at once. You can utilize it
    to apply an entered password to all archives.

    If you use this option with an empty password, WinRAR will skip
    all encrypted archives;

    d) Unlike previous versions, the password from default compression
    profile is not used for extraction.

    If you wish to use the same password for all extracting archives,
    press "Organize passwords..." button in the password dialog
    and define a new password entry, specifying "*" file mask
    in "Select for archives" field.

    4. In Windows 7 WinRAR will display the total operation progress
    also on WinRAR icon on Windows taskbar. You can disable it using
    "Taskbar progress bar" option on "General" page of WinRAR settings.

    5. Numerous Unicode support improvements allow to process non-English
    file names more smoothly. These improvements include:

    a) better Unicode handling in WinRAR in "Rename", "Convert",
    "Find" and other commands, in folder tree panel, in password
    request dialog and in many other parts of WinRAR interface;

    b) correctly displayed Unicode names in WinRAR items in Explorer
    context menus;

    c) Unicode support in .lng files, making WinRAR localization
    possible for Unicode only languages.

    6. Changes in -x switch syntax. Now you can specify a wildcard
    exclusion mask for folders. Such mask must have the trailing '\'
    character, like -x*tmp*\ or -x*\temp\

    7. New "Extract relative paths" option in "Advanced" part of extraction
    dialog. If you browse some archive subfolder in WinRAR shell
    and enable "Extract relative paths" option, the path part up to
    and including the current subfolder will be removed from extracted
    file paths.

    For example, if you are inside of "Backup\MyData" archive folder
    and extract "Images" folder, it will be extracted as "Images",
    not as "Backup\MyData\Images".

    This option is the new default extraction mode, but you can change
    the default back to WinRAR 3.x style. Just select "Extract full paths"
    and then press "Save settings" in "General" part of extraction dialog.

    8. Windows 98, Windows Me and Windows NT are not supported by WinRAR
    and WinRAR self-extracting modules anymore. Minimum Windows version
    required for WinRAR 4.0 is Windows 2000.

    If you need to run WinRAR on older Windows, you can download
    previous WinRAR versions from

    9. If TAR, TAR.GZ or TAR.BZ2 archive contains symbolic or hard links
    and if destination file system is NTFS, WinRAR will create these
    links when unpacking such archive. WinRAR will create symbolic links
    as symbolic and hard links as hard in Windows Vista and newer
    and it will create all links as hard in older Windows.

    If destination file system is FAT32 or any other not supporting
    file links, WinRAR will skip links when unpacking TAR, TAR.GZ
    and TAR.BZ2 archives.

    10. Recovery volume processing involves less disk seek operations
    resulting in higher performance.

    11. You can select Windows 7 library in tree panel in extraction dialog
    and WinRAR will use its default save location as the destination path.

    12. "Report" command allows to select HTML, Unicode text and usual text
    as output format for report file. Unlike previous WinRAR versions,
    now WinRAR preservers Unicode characters in reports when using HTML
    or Unicode text format. So non-English characters in file names
    will be displayed properly in such reports.

    13. Message list in GUI SFX archives displays only operation status
    and error messages. It does not contain names of all extracted files
    anymore. This change improves the speed and reduces memory requirements
    for SFX archives containing a large number of files. Also it makes
    easier to locate error messages, because they are not hidden among
    extracted file names.

    14. GUI SFX archives display "Extract" button instead of "Install"
    if no "Setup" or "Presetup" commands are present in the archive
    comment. If you prefer "Install" button, but do not need to
    execute any setup programs, you can add "Setup=<>" command.

    15. WinRAR displays the current percent above the operation progress bar
    when repairing an archive containing the recovery record
    and when processing recovery volumes.

    16. WinRAR limits the maximum possible volume size to 4 GB minus 1 byte
    when creating RAR volumes on a disk with FAT or FAT32 file system
    in volume size autodetecting mode. These file systems do not support
    4 GB and larger files.

    17. If "Wait if other WinRAR copies are active" option is enabled
    and WinRAR waits for another copy, you can press "Continue" button
    in command progress window to force WinRAR to stop waiting.
    So now "Continue" button allows to override the state of
    "Wait if other WinRAR copies are active" option for current operation.

    18. WinRAR displays one password request instead of two, when saving
    an encrypted file back to RAR or ZIP archive after modifying it
    in some external editor. Previous WinRAR versions usually requested
    the password twice, both when extracting the original file
    and archiving its modified copy. Only RAR archives with encrypted
    file names were processed with the single password prompt.

    19. New error code 10 ("no files") is added to list of error codes
    returned in command line mode by RAR and WinRAR. This new code
    can be returned by archive, extract, delete and repair commands.
    It means that RAR did not find any files matched the specified
    file or archive mask.

    20. File name area in file overwrite dialog occupies several lines now.
    It makes possible to display much longer names.

    21. Now switch -ep3 converts not only disk letters, but also UNC paths.
    So \\server\share will be converted to __server\share when archiving
    and restored to the original \\server\share when extracting with -ep3.

    22. New "Background extraction" option in "Advanced" part of extraction
    dialog places WinRAR into background, when extracting files.
    You can save its default state with "Save settings" button in "General"
    part of extraction dialog, just like for other extraction options.

    "Background archiving" option from the default compression profile
    does not affect the extraction behavior anymore.

    23. "Mode..." button in operation progress window is enabled also
    when extracting or testing archives. It provides access to
    "Command parameters" dialog, where you can set "Turn PC off when done"
    option for extraction and test operations.

    Previously this dialog was accessible only when archiving.

    24. Bugs fixed:

    a) renaming a file in archive could also rename all other files
    with the same name in other folders of the same archive;

    b) previous versions displayed the wrong total packed size
    in "Info" command for multivolume CAB archives;

    c) in ZIP archives 'U' (update) and 'F' (fresh) commands could
    erroneously update even files not specified in the command line.
    It happened only for files in current folder which names matched
    files in ZIP archive. This bug was not present in usual 'A' (add)
    archiving mode.
    Click the follow links to download : and .

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    Thank you

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    Thanks, downloaded and trying out now

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    Thanks Alpha for this info.I have a key but it is only for version 3

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    For those of you who feels gloomy by the failed registration of the old key, you may contact WinRAR Support to obtain a new key that works for WinRAR 4.OO. Use the same email address containing the attached key they used to give you when you contact them.

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    Thanks for the update Alpha

    d/l ing

    ---------- Post added at 11:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:51 PM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by corker View Post
    For those of you who feels gloomy by the failed registration of the old key, you may contact WinRAR Support to obtain a new key that works for WinRAR 4.OO. Use the same email address containing the attached key they used to give you when you contact them.

    Just sent an email, lets c what happens

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    [lang=ru] вещь[/lang]

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    WinRAR 4.01

    Changes
    Added support for file sizes stored in binary format in TAR archives.
    Some TAR archives use the binary size format instead of octal
    for files larger than 8 GB.


    Download
    Code:
    http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

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    As a registered user of WinRAR 4, I have contacted the developer. To update from previous version, we do not need to uninstall first. Just overwrite the current installation and it should work fine.

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