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Help to open a .rar file

herman2811
herman2811 Posts: 1,080 Forumite
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Can someone please recommend some good software (that's free of course!) that will enable me to open a .rar file? A link would be appreciated too.

Many thanks in advance

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  • Trixxie
    Trixxie Posts: 297 Forumite
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    I downloaded winrar. I think it was supposedly a trial/evaluation version but has always worked fine! Good luck!

    http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

    HTH
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  • r2d2c3p0
    r2d2c3p0 Posts: 171 Forumite
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    Herman,

    Yes, WinRAR is free -- or if it is a trial version it hasn't ever expired for me :) -- and opens .rar files.

    .rar is an compression format, like .zip which compresses one or more files into an single archive file.

    I think WinRAR is better, if not as popular as ZIP. It handily opens ZIP files too ;)
  • marleyboy
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    As above, a RAR file is a compressed file, (like a ZIP file) and is uncompressed using Winrar.
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  • toge
    toge Posts: 4 Newbie
    u could try 7zip.
  • zacspeed_2
    zacspeed_2 Posts: 636 Forumite
    Or Extractnow.
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  • wolfman
    wolfman Posts: 3,225 Forumite
    or TugZip (completey free).

    I usually either use that or 7-Zip (free too).
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  • ravenfire_2
    ravenfire_2 Posts: 188 Forumite
    For a rar file I would definitely recommend winrar, its free and very easy to use.
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  • wolfman
    wolfman Posts: 3,225 Forumite
    ravenfire wrote:
    For a rar file I would definitely recommend winrar, its free and very easy to use.

    It's actually $29.99. There's a 40-day trial period. Anything after that I believe is illegal as it's unlicensed software. It'll still work after the trial, but will present you with a message asking you to buy a license.
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  • trythat
    trythat Posts: 31 Forumite
    LZarc - http://www.izarc.org/ does loads of formats, and ties into menu structure nicely
  • timread
    timread Posts: 97 Forumite
    WinRAR do offer a free extract utility that will allow you to unpack RAR files - it's command line only, although it's pretty easy to use.

    http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm

    Just open up a command prompt in the directory and type unrar /? to see the full list of commands available.
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