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Can anyone recommend a good, free program to extract RAR files in Win 10
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On 2019-06-23 8:45 a.m., The Man in the High Castle wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good, free program to extract RAR files in Win 10 Pro? 7-Zip Winzip I use and prefer 7-zip, try both, see which you like, Also there are some others which I am not familiar with. Rene |
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Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2019-06-23 8:45 a.m., The Man in the High Castle wrote: Can anyone recommend a good, free program to extract RAR files in Win 10 Pro? 7-Zip Winzip I use and prefer 7-zip, try both, see which you like, Also there are some others which I am not familiar with. Rene Thanks. |
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On 2019-06-23 9:02 a.m., The Man in the High Castle wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote: On 2019-06-23 8:45 a.m., The Man in the High Castle wrote: Can anyone recommend a good, free program to extract RAR files in Win 10 Pro? 7-Zip Winzip I use and prefer 7-zip, try both, see which you like, Also there are some others which I am not familiar with. Rene Thanks. OOPs, Sorry, just checked their site, Winzip is not free. Rene |
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"The Man in the High Castle" wrote
| Can anyone recommend a good, free program to extract RAR files in Win 10 | Pro? 7-Zip is the best for anything exotic. Very stable. Very fast. It handles RAR, GZ, TAR, as well as being able to extract the content of CHM and HXS files. (It also claims to extract compound storage files like DOC and MSI, but can't actually do that in a useful way.) The speed of 7-Zip is amazing. It will easily handle gigantic files that will choke other programs. Most programs claim to handle all compression formats. Most don't. 7-Zip does. Unfortunately, 7-zip also very poorly designed in terms of the interface. I've used it for years to handle anything but ZIP or CAB, then I use one of the common freebies for those. Currently I use Filzip. It works. No big deal. There are others, too. Like PeaZip. No one has to pay for Winzip. I actually still use the last free version of Power Archiver for making SFX files. I think it dates from about '99. But zip is zip. Power Archiver was a clone of Winzip for many years, but when they got a user base they tried to start charging like Winzip. Currently Winzip is $30 for the basic version, which is nuts, given that there are numerous free programs to do the same thing. |
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Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2019-06-23 9:02 a.m., The Man in the High Castle wrote: Rene Lamontagne wrote: On 2019-06-23 8:45 a.m., The Man in the High Castle wrote: Can anyone recommend a good, free program to extract RAR files in Win 10 Pro? 7-Zip Winzip I use and prefer 7-zip, try both, see which you like, Also there are some others which I am not familiar with. Rene Thanks. OOPs, Sorry, just checked their site, Winzip is not free. Rene I used 7-Zip. Worked like a charm. Thanks again. |
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Mayayana wrote:
"The Man in the High Castle" wrote | Can anyone recommend a good, free program to extract RAR files in Win 10 | Pro? 7-Zip is the best for anything exotic. Very stable. Very fast. It handles RAR, GZ, TAR, as well as being able to extract the content of CHM and HXS files. (It also claims to extract compound storage files like DOC and MSI, but can't actually do that in a useful way.) The speed of 7-Zip is amazing. It will easily handle gigantic files that will choke other programs. Most programs claim to handle all compression formats. Most don't. 7-Zip does. Unfortunately, 7-zip also very poorly designed in terms of the interface. I've used it for years to handle anything but ZIP or CAB, then I use one of the common freebies for those. Currently I use Filzip. It works. No big deal. There are others, too. Like PeaZip. No one has to pay for Winzip. I actually still use the last free version of Power Archiver for making SFX files. I think it dates from about '99. But zip is zip. Power Archiver was a clone of Winzip for many years, but when they got a user base they tried to start charging like Winzip. Currently Winzip is $30 for the basic version, which is nuts, given that there are numerous free programs to do the same thing. I downloaded 7-Zip. I had some problems with the interface but figured it out in less than five minutes. Works great. |
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Mayayana wrote:
7-Zip is the best for anything exotic. Very stable. Very fast. It handles RAR, GZ, TAR I prefer IZarc, the UI may be an acquired taste, but no so difficult to acquire as 7Zip's |
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On 2019-06-23 10:14 a.m., The Man in the High Castle wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote: On 2019-06-23 9:02 a.m., The Man in the High Castle wrote: Rene Lamontagne wrote: On 2019-06-23 8:45 a.m., The Man in the High Castle wrote: Can anyone recommend a good, free program to extract RAR files in Win 10 Pro? 7-Zip Winzip I use and prefer 7-zip, try both, see which you like, Also there are some others which I am not familiar with. Rene Thanks. OOPs, Sorry, just checked their site, Winzip is not free. Rene I used 7-Zip. Worked like a charm. Thanks again. You're welcome. Rene |
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On 6/23/2019 9:45 PM, The Man in the High Castle wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good, free program to extract RAR files in Win 10 Pro? Most would recommend 7-zip! -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 ¤£*ɶU! ¤£¶BÄF! ¤£½ä¿ú! ¤£´©¥æ! ¤£¥´¥æ! ¤£¥´§T! ¤£¦Û±þ! ¤£¨D¯«! ½Ð¦Ò¼{ºî´© (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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The Man in the High Castle wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good, free program to extract RAR files in Win 10 Pro? I recently had a problem with a self-extracting RAR, in that 7ZIP couldn't open it properly. I don't know if the RAR team makes changes, or something in 7ZIP broke. The latest big improvement in 7ZIP, is the decompressor is multithreaded. Which speeds up decompression. But it won't be like that for all compression formats, probably just .7z to start. Paul |
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Paul wrote:
I recently had a problem with a self-extracting RAR, in that 7ZIP couldn't open it properly. It worked fine with the files I just extracted. |
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"Andy Burns" wrote
| | I prefer IZarc, the UI may be an acquired taste, but no so difficult to | acquire as 7Zip's No XP support. That's out for me. It's hard to imagine why they can't support XP. It's not windows API stuff. I tried downloading, anyway. It seems to work fine, except that it tried to run shellexecute on a .url file during install, to make me go online to their donation page. Very tacky. It is a better GUI than 7-Zip, but it still has problems. Neither program will open a dropped ZIP. They both want to add it to a new archive! Filzip actually asks me. "Do you want to open this?" Not a lot better. Of course I want to open it! What are these people smoking? The ancient Power Archiver is the only one I have that just works. Drop a ZIP in the window, see the contents. IZarc is also much bigger than 7-Zip. About 3 times bigger. And why are they shipping the Win2000 version of cabinet.dll? That's a system file, on every Windows system. It looks like the difference is that 7-Zip has all of the compression code inside, while IZarc is actually just using 3rd-party DLLs to do the work. In general it looks OK. At least it has a FileOpen dialogue instead of 7-Zip's Win95 file manager approach. But personally I rarely need to open exotic file types. So I like the simple approach for most uses. (PeaZip seems to get good reviews, but the name and icon are just too silly for my taste. |
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On 6/24/2019 12:12 AM, Paul wrote:
I recently had a problem with a self-extracting RAR, in that 7ZIP couldn't open it properly. Submit your special RAR to author of 7-zip? It might reveal an unknown bug/feature in RAR? -- @~@ Remain silent! Drink, Blink, Stretch! Live long and prosper!! / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! /( _ )\ May the Force and farces be with you! ^ ^ (x86_64 Ubuntu 9.10) Linux 2.6.39.3 ¤£*ɶU! ¤£¶BÄF! ¤£½ä¿ú! ¤£´©¥æ! ¤£¥´¥æ! ¤£¥´§T! ¤£¦Û±þ! ¤£¨D¯«! ½Ð¦Ò¼{ºî´© (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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"Mayayana" wrote:
"Andy Burns" wrote: | I prefer IZarc, the UI may be an acquired taste, but no so difficult to | acquire as 7Zip's No XP support. That's out for me. It's hard to imagine why they can't support XP. It's not windows API stuff. I have an older version that runs on Win2k but the latest won't run because it is using APIs introduced in XP. That's what prompted me to change to 7Zip a while ago. I've also found that where IZArc can't properly read some zipped files 7Zip can. And why are they shipping the Win2000 version of cabinet.dll? That's a system file, on every Windows system. You'd think if they ship that, they'd support W2k. |
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