About
Free RAR Extractor is a free file decompression software for RAR archives, can open and unzip RAR compressed packages, extract the compressed files to an output folder. Software can support multi-volume and encrypted archives. This software is FREE, CONVENIENT and FAST.
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This is a freeware, free to use.
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How to use
The basic usage is simple, click the "Open" button to choice a RAR file, then click "Extract" button to decompress.
If your RAR files are multi-volume compression, you should select the first file, such as "*.part1.rar", "*.part01.rar", "*.part001.rar" and so on. The default output folder is source RAR file name, you can click the "Browse" button to select another folder, if the output file does not exist, it will be created.
Other available options:
- Password (if source RAR file is encrypted, you should enter a correct password).
- Automatically overwrite a file if it already exists.
- Open output folder after extracting.
Remark
- Ensure that your PC have enough disk space.
- For Windows OS platform (both x86 and x64, .NET Framework 4.0 or later).
File Format
RAR (Roshal Archive) is an efficient data compression format, supports multi-volume compression, data encryption and other useful features. Usually, RAR files have higher compression ratio than ZIP files, now, it is one of the most popular data compression formats on the Windows operating system platform.
One of the most important advantage of RAR format is sub-volume compression, users can split a large file into multiple small files, thus greatly facilitate data storage and transmission.