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Should I remove WinRAR 32-bitowy?

What percent of users and experts removed it?
5% remove it95% keep it
Overall Sentiment
Excellent
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How common is it?
Global Rank #12,549
Reach 0.0253%

Versions

VersionDistribution
4.20.0 100.00%

WinRAR 4.20 32-bitowy

What is WinRAR 32-bitowy?

Since version 4.20 Compression speed in SMP mode has been increased significantly. ZIP compression now uses SMP as well. WinRAR is a shareware file archiver and data compression utility that is able to create RAR archives natively. WinRAR supports RAR (WinRAR native conversion format) and ZIP archives, and unpacking of ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, EXE, 7z, and Z archives.

About  (from win.rar GmbH)

WinRAR is a powerful archive manager. It can backup your data and reduce the size of email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other files downloaded from Internet and create new archives in RAR and ZIP file format.

Overview

A scheduled task is added to Windows Task Scheduler in order to launch the program at various scheduled times (the schedule varies depending on the version). When installed, it will add a context menu handler to the Windows shell in order to provide quick access to the program. The main program executable is winrar.exe. The software installer includes 8 files and is usually about 3.96 MB (4,149,454 bytes).

Program detailsProgram details

URL: www.rarlab.com
Installation folder: C:\Program Files\WinRAR\
Uninstaller: C:\Program Files\WinRAR\uninstall.exe
Estimated size: 3.96 MB

Program filesFiles installed by WinRAR 4.20 32-bitowy

Program executable:winrar.exe
Name:WinRAR
WinRAR archiver
Path:C:\Program Files\winrar\winrar.exe
MD5:dbec10e990b3e053627269cdf5be7b50
(From the publisher) “There is no better way to compress files for efficient and secure file transfer, faster e-mail transmission and well organized data storage. Over 500 million users world-wide make WinRAR the worlds's most popular...”
Additional files:
  • Rar.exe (by Alexander Roshal) - WinRAR (Archiwizer RAR)
  • RarExt.dll (by Alexander Roshal)
  • RarExt64.dll
  • Uninstall.exe
  • UnRAR.exe
  • wrar420pl.exe

Program behaviorsBehaviors exhibited

2 Context Menu Handlers
  • RarExt.dll added to Windows Explorer under the name 'WinRAR32' with a class of {B41DB860-8EE4-11D2-9906-E49FADC173CA}.
  • RarExt64.dll added to Windows Explorer under the name 'WinRAR' with a class of {B41DB860-64E4-11D2-9906-E49FADC173CA}.
Scheduled Task
  • WinRAR.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{CE62A4A2-CC7C-48EF-AEDB-5D16B5581546}' (runs on registration).

How do I remove WinRAR 32-bitowy?

You can uninstall WinRAR 32-bitowy from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
  1. On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
    • Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
  2. When you find the program WinRAR 4.20 (32-bitowy), click it, and then do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
    • Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
  3. Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove WinRAR 32-bitowy.

OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 52%
Win Vista 0%
 
USER ACTIONS
Uninstall it 5%
Keep it 95%
 
GLOBAL RANK
#12,549

Windows OS versionsWindows

Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
Windows 7 59.20%
Windows XP 22.00%
Windows 10 11.60%
Windows Vista 7.20%
Which OS releases does it run on?
Windows 7 Home Premium 29.92%
Microsoft Windows XP 21.89%
Windows 7 Ultimate 16.27%
Windows 7 Professional 10.04%
Windows Vista Home Premiu... 4.42%
Windows 8.1 3.61%

Distribution by countryGeography

81.80% of installs come from Poland
Which countries install it?
  Poland 81.80%
  United Kingdom 6.20%
  United States 5.00%
  Germany 1.00%
  Ireland 1.00%
  Netherlands 1.00%
  Brazil 0.40%
  DK 0.40%
  MK 0.40%
  Belgium 0.20%
  Canada 0.20%
  CY 0.20%
  Czech Republic 0.20%
  Spain 0.20%

OEM distributionPC manufacturers

What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
Acer 18.52%
GIGABYTE 16.67%
Samsung 13.58%
Dell 11.42%
ASUS 10.19%
Hewlett-Packard 9.88%
Lenovo 8.02%
Toshiba 4.01%
American Megatrends 2.78%
Intel 2.16%
Sahara 1.85%
NEC 0.93%
Common models
TOSHIBA Satellite L300 2.66%
ASUSTeK K53SC 2.13%
GBT GBTUACPI 2.13%
HP Pavilion dv5 Notebook ... 2.13%
LENOVO Lenovo IdeaPad Y58... 2.13%
Samsung 300E4A/300E5A/300... 2.13%

About win.rar GmbH

Alexander Roshal's WinRAR is a file archiver and data compression utility and is available as a shareware for most Wndows versions.
Publisher URL: www.ralabs.com

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