Showing posts with label WinRAR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WinRAR. Show all posts

06 September, 2012

Easter Egg in WinRAR

WinRAR the most popular file compression utility, has a little Easter egg.

Easter eggs in software are messages, videos, graphics, sound effects, added game levels, new characters in games or an unusual change in program behavior that sometimes occur in software in response to some undocumented set of commands, mouse clicks, keystrokes or other stimuli intended as a joke or to display program credits.

In WinRAR go to the "Help Menu" and select the "About WinRAR" option.




Now click on the WinRAR file.
It will bounce up and down with a thumping sound each time it hits the bottom.
Turn on your speakers ON.

How to archive multiple files to separate archives


If you have several hundred files and you want to put each one of them into it's own archive WinRAR can really be useful.

Here is how to do it:

How to create software installer using WinRAR

Installer is a software program which make it convenient for us to install software on our system. When a software is installed three kinds of changes are brought about in the system :-

  1. File System changes
  2. Registry changes and 
  3. Drivers and services.
There are several software installers available on internet like - NSIS, Innosetup, GhostScript.
However you can also use one of the most popular file compression program WinRAR for this job. 

Here is the step-by-step procedure to do it: