Download WinRAR 5.40 software

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Powerful archiver and archive manager. RAR files can usually compress content 8 to 30 percent better than ZIP files. Main features are strong compression, processing of non-RAR archives, long filename support, self-extracting archives and more.

Whats new in version 5.40:

• WinRAR can unpack TAR archives containing folders with pax extended headers. Previous versions failed to unpack them.
• "Keep broken files" extraction option is supported for 7-Zip archives. Bugs fixed:
• WinRAR 5.10 did not set "hidden", "read-only" and "system" file attributes when unpacking ZIP archives;
• WinRAR 5.10 failed to update self-extracting RAR archives containing nested ZIP archives stored without compression;
• ZIP archive created with "Do not store paths" option included unnecessary empty name records for folders;
• archived files could have 1 hour modification time error in Windows XP;
• deleting a file in RAR5 solid archive containing files stored with -ver switch caused such files to lose version information;
• black rectangles were displayed instead of toolbar buttons in 16- and 24- bit screen color modes and Windows custom text size larger than 100%.

Users are advised to pay attention while installing this ad-supported application:
• Displays ad banners or other types of advertising material during its runtime