****This tutorial will show you how to put files into .rar Archive and pass worded (if wanted)****
What You Will Need
Before continuing you will need a couple of thing, first of all you need WINRAR, which is a very powerful archive manager. It can reduce size for you email attachments, decompress RAR, ZIP and other types of files downloaded from the internet.
You can get winrar at http://www.rarlabs.com

The other thing is that make sure your using Windows XP because this is what I used to make this tutorial. I think it works with any other windows not sure though. IF your using older version of windows u might find some buttons in different locations.

~~How to archive your files into winrar~~

1) Find the files you will like to compress/archive make sure they are all in the same folder (easier)
Once you open the folder, highlight the files you which to archive/compress
Your screen should look like this


2) After doing that right click any file and select “Add to Archive”
Your screen should look like this


3) After doing that you will get something like this

Where it says “game1.rar” that’s the name of the archive that your are creating (name it as you wish)

4) You are Done after doing that you will get your archive
The archive will be located in the same folder you did all of the steps
Your screen should look like this



~~How to add a pass word to your archive~~ (optional)
This is just if you don’t want anyone else to see what you have in your archive.
After doing step #2
(same as step #3)
Now to add the pass click the “Advance” tab located on the top of the pop up box and you will get something like this:

Once you get that, click “Set Password” and a new box will appear


Type Your pass word and retype it just to make sure you did it right and click “OK” and “ok” again. And after that you will get the same picture like step #4 but it will be password procted.
There you go you have succefully created a Winrar archive

author = DYABLO
Enjoy

The tutorial will work only if you enabled shell access thing. If you turned it off like me, you're gonna have to open WinRar (c:\program files\winrar\winrar.exe), click Add, and click the Files tab.

what do you mean Shell Access thing?

i dont think it should be in the tutorials i think it easy to understand how to add rar archives...: )

thanks for tht tutorial but i know it man

this is for the people who dont know that, i seen people asked how to add passwords to archives.

hmm would this be used when packaging programs that people would create?

To enable the right-click menu of WinRar that you see in every file, directory you must first open WinRar, then go to OPTIONS menu and click the SETTINGS option. You'll choose the INTEGRATION tab in order to enable "Integrate WinRar into Shell". Now you can be sure that you have the right-click menu options that you were talking about in your tutorial above.

Note: Many people already have this option enabled, because it is set enabled by default (on installation), but if you haven't you can use my little tutorial that I writed above.

Enjoy Winrar! And have a good day!

thanks man i needed a tutorial on this i was wondering how to do this for a while i know many ppl that no how to do it but they ay its a secret so thanks again