How do I open .rar files ? (Windows XP)

[Jim Hawkins]

Downloaded one of these but can't find anything that opens it.

Jim Hawkins

[polygonum]

7-zip

[Tim]

Winrar.

Tim

[Clive George]

Then swear at whichever idiot decided to use a closed format to compress their data.

[Steve]

As Tim has already said, Winrar is what you want. Just for general interest though, there's a good website that tells you what you need if you tell it what the file extension is:

[Jim Hawkins]

Thanks, everyone. I've now discovered fyzip. It's clunky, but it works

[polygonum]

So why give winrar houseroom?

[John Williamson]

So you can open the latest, password protected, encrypted version of the .rar archives. There's a 40 day free trial available which will do that, as will unrar, and once you've uncompressed the archive, you can bin winrar util next time you need it.

Otherwise, as has been said, try 7zip first.

[polygonum]

Ah! Right. I've not had one that won't open in 7-zip - but my needs are modest.

[Clive George]

?

[Jules Richardson]

uuencode, anyone?

[Bob Eager]

Didn't need it with Kermit...but a different problem domain.

[Nick Odell]

If the contents of the .rar file is video then VLC Media Player will usually play it without your first having to extract it with 7-zip.

Nick

[The Natural Philosopher]

definitely

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , brass monkey escribió:

Heh, had to use xmodem today to get a working config into a b0rked cisco router. Memories of BBC micro days, Commstar and dial-up bulletin boards.

[Man at B&Q]

Winzip works for me (full, paid for, licensed version).

MBQ

[Brian Gaff]

Winrar is OK there are free versions of it and they work well. Its been around since the dos days. Brian