The 'Shell integration' options are for accessing WinRAR's features on context menus: 'Add', 'Extract', 'Wizard', etc. Upon installing the tool, users are given interface options: adding the WinRAR icon to the desktop screen or ‘Start Menu’ for easy accessibility, and creating a WinRAR program group. WinRAR supports and formats RAR, ZIP, ACE, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, GZIP, ISO, JAR, LZH, TAR, UUE, XZ, Z, 001 and 7-ZIP files.

The application can be downloaded in a multitude of languages: Chinese, English, Catalan, Indonesian, Portuguese, Serbian, Slovenian, etc. WinRAR is available in two versions based on computers' operating systems: the 32-bit and the 64-bit. When the free trial ends, there are windows that regularly pop-up to remind users to purchase a WinRAR license. If the free trial option is chosen, then there are restrictions to the application’s features - which are only available on the licensed version: ‘Add authenticity information’, ‘Show protocol file’, and ‘Delete protocol file’. Users have the options to download WinRAR with a free trial or purchase the software WinRAR requires a license after the trial period ends.

The tool unzips folders by extracting files and uses compression to zip multiple files into one folder. WinRAR is a software created by RARLAB for Windows that is used to extract and compress files.

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