Review by Brent Butler

To be quite honest, the only reason I need a utility like this is for the occasional RAR file I come across. I was previously using Smith-Micro’s Stuffit for RARs, and pretty unhappy with it. Stuffit is slow, so slow that I often think it has locked up … and dragging and dropping with Stuffit is dodgy at best.

For Zip files, the utility built into Windows words better than ANY utility based ZIP handler I’ve ever tried. So I literally don’t need and wouldn’t use this software for the file compression used in it’s very name.

WinZip has a much cleaner, better performing implementation of RAR management, which is enough to give it four stars in my book. I’m just not sure it is worth the sixty dollar price (as of the date of this review) for my own purpose. If you have frequent need to use or access compression formats other than Zip files, it might be more worth that price to you than it is to me.