Introduction & Opening | Creating a RAR Archive
Un-RAR-ing / Un-ZIP-ing | Advanced Options

Advanced Options:
WinRAR has a wide variety of extra compression options that you are free to investigate, and may actually find useful on occasion. After right-clicking files to add them to an archive, the normal window will appear. On the “General” tab, there are a variety of extra options, however:

Archive Format

If you are unsure whether the person you may be sending the file to has WinRAR or not, you may wish to save in ZIP format (an older compression format, read by many other programs, such as WinZIP).

Compression Method

“Normal” is the default, but you can change this to higher settings. It will take longer to compress the files, but the over-all file size will be smaller in the end.

Split to volumes, bytes

This is probably one of WinRAR’s most powerful functions. If your final RAR archive is too large, you can have WinRAR automatically split it up into many, smaller RAR files that can be later combined. This is useful if you need to split up the archive among floppy disks or CD-Rs. WinRAR has a short menu of pre-sets, but you are free to enter your own numbers, as well. Please note that WinRAR asks for the number in bytes (1024 bytes = 1 kilobyte).