The program has three ways to retrieve the passwords namely brute-force, brute-force with user-defined mask, and dictionary. Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and Windows Server 2008, 2011, 2012Īs its name suggests, RAR Password Unlocker, also named as WinRAR password cracker, helps recover lost passwords of RAR files. However, as compared to the ZIP format, RAR has more advanced features like the following: more convenient multivolume archives, tight compression, multimedia text modes, AES-128 protection, helping to repair an archive even in case of physical data damage, and Unicode support to process non-English file names. Both of them are also used to compress lots of files. The RAR format functions similarly to the ZIP format since they are both data containers.
RAR is the format used by the WinRAR archiver. However, the ZIP format does not have essential features that are found in other archive formats such as RAR. The major benefit of using the ZIP format is the fact that it is the most popular archive type.
After downloading a file in the ZIP format, the contents of the file requires unpacking before opening and editing them. It is popularly used in Windows operating systems. ZIP is an archive format used to store files in the compressed state.
