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Windows is known to have excellent backward compatibility. Having such is usual case for home PCs but not work environment. Software that interacts with system in potentially dangerous way may need administrator’s permission to run. Program may need to use local resources like hard drive space to create temporary files. If not and it is assumed that libraries are common and present in the system it easily creates DLL hell scenario. In best case they are included with software. Software may require specific DLL files or even specific versions of those. Applications based on specific frameworks require those installed. Most of software comes as packaged setup file that must be installed. Most software called that is not really portable at all. Word becomes more popular but is often used too easily.

file size value in the internal viewer status bar didn't include the byte order mask field, displaying a smaller than actual size for Unicode files.Yesterday I stuck in yet another discussion of what portable really means.

"Display files in Explorer" extraction option was ignored if "When done: Close WinRAR" option was also set and archive was opened in WinRAR before extracting.

files in Unix ARJ archives could be erroneously displayed as folders in WinRAR file list.

It didn't affect extracting the entire archive, which was performed correctly

extracting individual files from solid archives created by RAR versions older than 2.0, could fail in WinRAR 6.20 and 6.21.

With recovery record and recovery volumes, you can reconstruct even physically damaged archives. It also offers the ability to create self extracting and multi volume archives.

It supports files and archives up to 8,589 billion gigabytes in size. WinRAR offers you the benefit of industry strength archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a key of 128 bits. It consistently makes smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs. WinRAR is an archiving utility that completely supports RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z archives.