You can't click on a RAR file and open it immediately – you'll need an app to reverse the file compression so you can open the files inside. Luckily, there are numerous free apps that do this.

I use both 7-Zip and WinRAR on my PC for different purposes. 7-Zip is known for its high compression ratio, which is useful ...

Find and double-click to launch the multipart volume's root file with WinRAR; root files typically carries a .rar, .r00 or .part1 extension.

Opening RAR Files With 7-Zip With versions available for Windows and Linux, 7-ZIP offers a free alternative to WinRAR that you can use for opening RAR files.

Windows at present doesn’t natively support the RAR file format, but you can use third-party tools to open RAR files on a Windows 11/10 PC.

The maintainers of the WinRAR file archiving utility have released an update to address an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability.

Older WinRAR versions let malicious archives override the user-specified path via crafted archives, enabling stealthy system ...

A few weeks earlier 'zeroplayer' advertised an $80K WinRAR 0-day exploit Russia-linked attackers found and exploited a ...