RAR Files

Can anyone recommend a good, free program to extract RAR files in Win 10
Pro?

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

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.

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

"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.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

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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

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.

"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.

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?

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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.