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 ...

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.

However, if WinRAR is not associated with RAR files, this will not work; instead, right-click the file, point to "Open With" and click "WinRAR Archiver." Click the "Extract To" button.

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 ...