Demi-god Jeff Atwood wrote a recent missive on the virtues of the RAR compression format. Although Jeff is 98.5% right with his analysis of WinRAR I think one thing was way off the mark. WinRAR and shell integration. On vista with UAC installed the latest non-beta version (3.62) stinks. Version 3.7 (currently in beta) will address some of these problems, but 3.62 is just IJDW. When I run one of the WinRAR options from the context menu that shows up when I right-click on a file they just don’t do anything (and I’m not the only one). Directly launching the WinRAR exe from the start menu always results in an elevation prompt.
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Jeff Atwood
p.s. I love Cooneys. Gotta catch ‘em all!
25/02/2007 11:40:00 PM
Does 3.70 beta 3 fix this at all? One of the things I like about WinRAR is how often it’s updated.
I actually enjoy paying for fresh, continually updated, living software..