MagicRAR

MagicRAR is a comprehensive collection of applications that come in handy for users who need to work with archive files by compressing them to various formats such as ZIP, RAR, TAR, GZIP and BZIP2, to name a few.

MagicRAR comes bundled with several programs namely MagicRAR Express, MagicRAR Drive Press and MagicRAR Studio.

What’s more, it integrates seamlessly into Windows Explorer as a context-menu shortcut so you can extract important files from archives, or compress and e-mail them effortlessly.

With the help of MagicRAR Express, you are able to open a new archive and extract all the files to the folder you want. Irrespective of which type of the archive you want to open, the application automatically recognizes it and enables you to save the extracted files to whatever folder location you want.

Using MagicRAR Drive Press you are able to compress your entire disk using NTFS compression. Simply choose the disk you are interested in and increase your drive’s total capacity. Although you are not required to perform any advanced configurations, all your files and settings are preserved and can be accessed normally. You can also decompress the drive if you want to get back your folders and documents.

By accessing MagicRAR Studio you are able to extract archives, compress files and scan them so you can make sure that they have no viruses which may cause harm to your PC or your data.

When you launch MagicRAR Studio for the first time, you will notice a hierarchical display on the left side of the main window that is composed of three nodes namely ‘My Visual Archive Desktop’ that contains all the other nodes in the tree view, ‘My Archive Files’ that contains all the created archives and ‘My Archive Places’ that displays a list with all the used folders for storing archives in your computer or on your organizational network.

An important feature that makes MagicRAR Studio to stand out, called ‘Archive Places’, allows you to organize all your favorite folders by giving instant access to all the archives inside them. This feature is very useful especially when you want to perform batch operations on multiple archives.

For advanced users, MagicRAR comes with a useful utility entitled MagicRAR Command Line that uses simple, yet effective parameters which help them to add files into archives, extract files and convert an archive to other formats.

To wrap it up, MagicRAR is worth having when you need to extract files from various archives, as well as compress important folders in order to increase your drive’s total capacity.