Essential Software - WinRAR
Windows XP can do a lot, but there are a lot of things that it can’t do. Stay tuned for weekly posts about cheap and free software that will make you more productive.
The first piece of essential software is WinRAR. Currently at version 3.70, WinRAR can create and read compressed files (archives) of just about any file format that you can find on the web including: zip, rar, lzh, tar, gz, tar.gz, bz2, iso, and handful of others that I have yet to encounter.
The integrated ZIP-file utility that Windows comes with is alright, but for free, there’s really no reason not to use WinRAR.
Head to the RARLab’s download page and grab the most recent version of WinRAR.
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