Users of personal computers are often wondering how to unpack the WinRAR archive. In everyday activity, we most often encounter files in ZIP format, but the RAR extension has many advantages by offering more efficient compression and the ability to restore damaged data. The WinRAR application even provides users with the ability to break the archive into several parts, and this greatly simplifies the transmission of information via the Internet.
How to unpack RAR in Windows?
You can unpack the ZIP files in many operating systems without using third-party software. But for RAR, as a rule, a special application is required. Windows users have the opportunity to buy a paid version of the VRRAR tool to open archives.
Easy is considered to be the main advantage of WinRar: how to unzip the file in it, even an inexperienced user will understand. This is an archiver, which was designed simultaneously with the RAR expansion and is designed specifically to work with it.
But most users will most likely want to download one of several free applications on the Internet that can work with this expansion.
If you are interested in how to unzip the archive, you can use the free 7-ZIP program for Windows, and for this you need to perform the following actions:
- Download, install and launch the application. To do this, go to the 7-Zip download page and select a link corresponding to a suitable software version. Alternatively, you can search the link to download on other sites. In the installer, select the destination folder for the application and click the Install button in the lower right corner of the window. After the installation is completed, you can click the "Finish" button and run the program.
- Find an archive with 7-zip. To do this, it is necessary to find using the RAR file program interface you want to unpack. You need to find the appropriate folder and click on the archive 2 times to access its contents. Alternatively, you can right-click on the specified file and select the "Open" option at the top of the drop-down menu, which should appear.
- Open or copy file. Now you just need to click on the RAR file 2 times to start it to unzip. If you want to save the file in a specific location on your computer, you need to highlight it and click the "Copy" button located below the navigation pane. Then you should select a path to save a file in the pop-up window and press the OK button in the lower right corner.
Rar Opener.
If you are interested in how to unpack the RAR file, that is, there are other applications that can be used for this purpose. Despite the fact that 7-zip is considered an excellent tool for opening archives, you can find an alternative solution.
The RAR Opener tool is available for free download in the Microsoft store. The application is a very simple program similar to the plugin. The tool offers several large blue buttons for packaging and unpacking RAR archives. It integrates with Windows 10 and copes perfectly with such formats as RAR, ZIP, TAR, LZH, etc.
How to unpack RAR in MacOS?
The old but reliable Unarchiver application exceeds in many parameters the built-in archive unpacking officer, which comes with MacOS. The program offers support for a large number of file extensions and additional functions that are very similar to the features of 7-zip.
Despite the fact that UNARCHIVER is deprived of the possibility of creating RAR archives, it allows you to easily unpack this format. Unzip the data, for this you need to perform the following actions:
- Download, install and run Unarchiver. To do this, go to the download website and click the "Download" button in the middle of the page or find the application in the Mac App Store. Then make installation and run the program.
- Extract and open an archive. To do this, find and open the file using the application browser. Make sure the checkbox next to Rar Archive is selected (or other formats you want to open), select the "Extraction" tab, located at the top of the application window. Determine the location to save the resulting file from the drop-down menu at the top of the window. Right-click on the RAR file you want to open, and select UNARCHIVER from the drop-down menu next to the "Open Usat" option.
- The application will automatically create and save the unzipped data with the same folder name as the RAR archive at the previously specified location. Then just click on the archive 2 times to start it in the appropriate program.
The Unrarx Tool is a simple software that works quickly and offers the ability to restore damaged data. You need to download the application, run it and drag to the window any RAR files, after which they unpack.
The program interface is characterized by maximum simplicity. This is an excellent option for those who do not want to spend their time to study the capabilities of the application.
To speed up information on email and reduce the load on the communication channel, a compression (archiving) of data is used. Also, the compression operation is used if there is not enough space on the outer medium to download all the data or want to "unload" the hard disk on the computer by archiving unused files and folders. In addition, for prominent programs from viruses, they are archived, and in the case of infection, it is removed from the archive to a folder with the program (executing EXE file).
The most popular among users is a zip archive. It has a rather high compression indicator. But in many novice users upon receipt of the archive, for example, by e-mail, the question arises - how to open files with the zip extension. Consider programs with which you can easily and easily extract the contents of the ZIP file.
The easiest way to unpack files and folders from the ZIP archive on the computer is to use the Windows 7 conductor to which this unpacker is already built. To do this, select the desired archive in the explorer, click on it with the right mouse button and in the drop-down menu, select "Extract everything ...".
A wizard to extract files from compressed zip folders, which will offer to specify a place to unpacking and perform an unzip operation.
Unfortunately, only ZIP format can be opened through the Windows 7 conductor, other archivers are not supported.
How to unzip zip in Total Commander
In the Total Commander file manager, open the archive with the expansion of ZIP will not be much labor. It has already been supporting the unpacking of the most popular formats. You can find out which it supports, you can on the "Configuration" tab - "Settings" - "Archives".
Note that the Pkunzip.exe program is embedded in it, therefore, the manager uses the PKZip.exe utility for archiving. Here you can change the degree of compression.
To unpack from the ZIP archive, it is enough to open it by pressing the Enter key and copy the contents to any specified location or a predetermined folder. You can still unpack files and folders using the Alt + F9 keys, for this place the cursor to the ZIP archive, and in the second manager window, specify the place where you want to extract the content.
To create an archive, highlight the files that need to be used and press the combination Alt + F5. In addition to archiving in ZIP, other ARJ, RAR formats are available, and so on. To add files to an already created archive, open it and simply copy them there.
How to open a file through the 7-zip program
The 7-ZIP archiver is the best free program in its class with a high compression rate. In Windows 7, you need to run it on behalf of the administrator. In addition to the specified format, supports work with many archives, including 7Z, RAR, ISO and many others.
After installation, 7-ZIP is added to the Windows context menu item, since WinRAR. If you are in Windows Explorer, click on the Archive Right-click See the 7-Zip item appeared, where you can select the unpacking mode you want.
You can also open and extract the data in the program window by specifying additional settings.
Opening a damaged archive in WinRar
There are situations when an error occurs when unpacking the ZIP archive, and it is very important to remove from it. In this case, in the WinRar window in the "Miscellane" section, you set the daw against the "Leave Damaged files on the disk".
When when unpacking, the archiver will display a warning about the impossibility of unpacking a damaged file, click "Cancel". A part of the damaged file will be saved in the specified folder.
Files possessing extension.zip are among the most common types of archives. Due to this, in most operating systems, standard zip extraction tools are already provided. So here you do not need to search and install additional programs. Make a click right-click on the archive, and select "Extract All" item. The special wizard will open in which you need to specify the place where the files from the archive content will fall. If you change anything, then this place will be the current folder.
Even there is item "Show learned files". If you leave the check box nearby, then after extracting the conductor window opens with all extracted content. 
By the way, it is not necessary to retrieve files from the archive - it can be opened as a regular folder and run the necessary documents directly from there.
Unlike the previous case, the RAR requires the installation of third-party programs.
For example, one of such reliable programs as 7-zip is perfectly coping with similar archives (and it also supports many other types: 7z, Zip, Tar, etc.). You can download this application from the official site and it is completely free.
The program itself is quite simple in management. To unpack the archive, make it right with the right mouse button on it and in the 7-ZIP menu section, click on one of these items: 
- Unpack here - the extraction will start immediately, in the same catalog where the archive;
- Unpack in the "folder name" - the extraction will start in here the created folder with the same name as the archive. It is best to use this particular option.
The two recent options are the most optimal and not forcing to a large number of actions from the user: just pressed and everything was unpacked. When the first option is selected, a window with an extraction parameters will appear. 
In this window, you can specify the appropriate folder into which unpacking will occur. Immediately you can choose such a parameter as "without paths", while all the files will be removed by a solid bunch, without the folders in which they were. When you select Restarting, you can activate the ability to edit files in the archive. But with standard settings, the application will query, during their launch.
In addition to using the context menu, you can use the program window. To run it, make a double click on the archive icon. In the window itself, on the top panel, click "Extract". 
Recently, users have liked this application that can work with various with RAR and ZIP. It is also free and working with it is pretty similar to other applications. When the program is installed on the computer, three additional items will appear in the archive context menu:
- Extract Here - files will be removed in the same folder where the archive;
Extract to "folder name" - the extraction will occur in the folder with the specified name. 
As you can see, there is a slight similarity with 7-zip. At least menu items and in English, the program window has a Russian-speaking design. If you select the first item, the following window opens: 
To extract files, click on the "unzip" and select the appropriate folder.
This popular program is often used to extract files from the archives with the RAR extension. You can download the program directly from the official site of developers. Make sure Make sure that you download the Russian-speaking version. The program is installed very simply, like most such applications, on this problems should not arise here.
WinRAR is a paid program and it has a trial, free use period for 40 days. When this time is completed, the program will continue to continue to work and perform its functions, just now will pop up the window asking you to buy a license.
To unpack the archives, you need to make the same steps as in previous programs.
Make the right mouse button on the archive file and select one of the following items:
- Extract to the current folder - all files are unpackled in there, where and the archive;
Extract to the "folder name" - files will be removed in the specified folder, which will be automatically created in the same directory. 
Those who do not like to choose a bunch of parameters once again, can press one of the last two options. But if you select the first, the window will open with the extraction parameters where you can select the folder to unpack files and a bunch of other parameters. 
- For example, in the "Update Mode" section, there are such parameters.
Extraction with the replacement of files - when unpacking, new files will replace similar, with the same name that were already outside the archive. - Extract with file updating - essentially the same effect, simply replacing only those files that are older than in the archive.
- Updating only existing files - existing files will be updated, and all others will not even be removed. In the "Restart Mode" section, you can set the program's behavior parameters during file rewriting.
In addition, using this window, you can unpack damaged archives. After all, if you use standard settings, the program will give an error, and the unpacking will not be possible. But if you select the damaged files on the disk on the disk, then even damaged files will be eliminated from the archive.
For example, in the case of music or video recordings, they can be opened. Although it also depends on the degree of damage to the archive.
You can extract documents from archives through the main program window. Allocate everything you need and click on the "Extract" or "Master" button. 
In some cases, the WinRAR application can also be used to back up important information.
Just consider such a small feature: after installing the above applications, the standard function for extracting archives with the zip extension may simply be precipitated from the context menu.
Remove files from multi-meter archives
Such archives are used in the searches of very large amounts of information. For example, it is convenient when writing to a disk when everything in one archive simply does not fit into one disk. The multivolume archive files in their own name have a sequence number. Depending on the program, it can take a different look: part1, z02, 003, 004 and further up to the most recent file. To unpack such archives, you must have at once with all parts, and they should be located in one folder.
To easily transmit a folder on the network containing a large number of files, they are subjected to the archiving process when they are packaged into a single file with the maximum degree of information compression. Users downloaded this archive make it unpacking and only after that they get access to all information and files that it contains. Despite the fact that Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems include a built-in program for creating and unpacking archives, it is inferior to third-party archivers in its capabilities, such as WinRar and 7Z.
If you have to work often with archives, we recommend downloading and installing some of the named programs to the computer - WinRAR or 7Z. Working with them is very simple.
How to unpack the rar archive
It should be noted that the WinRar archiver was created by the talented Russian programmer Evgeny Roshal, has full support for the Russian language and is distinguished by the versions depending on whether the system is installed. Download the archive suitable for your system with the installation file from the Rarlab.com official site and install the WinRAR to the computer.
After installing WinRAR, all archive files on the computer will be associated with this program, as used to open them by default and their icons will become the appearance of the icon of the archiver itself.
In the context menu, called when you right-click on the archive file, the following items "Extract files" will be added, "Extract to the current folder" and "Extract the [File Name with Archive]".
In the context menu, called when you right-click on a regular file that are not inherently archive, items will also be added: "Add to Archive", "Add to Archive [File Name] .ra", "Add to Archive and Send E-mail "," Add to Archive [File Name] .rar and send by e-mail. "
Accordingly, now to unpack any archive to click on it right of the mouse and select "Extract" from the context menu and specify the place in which it will be unpacked. To create an archive, you need to click on any file or folder to which some files are folded and select the appropriate way to add to the archive from the context menu. To describe what the difference between each method, we will not, since you yourself in practice very quickly understand in their nuances and find for yourself the most convenient option.
WinRar is considered one of the best archivers providing good speed, highly compressing information and unpacking a large number of different archive formats.
How to unpack the archive 7z
The 7-ZIP archiver was developed by the Ukrainian programmer Igor Pavlov. On the official website of the program 7-zip.org.ua, you also need to select an installation file that corresponds to your operating system. After the file is saved, set the program to the computer.
The menu of the program itself is Russified well, but for some reason the context menu in English. But it is enough to figure out enough. "Extract Files" - unpack files, "Extract Here" - to unpack here on the current folder, "Add to Archive" - \u200b\u200bcreate an archive.
As well as WinRAR, this archiver has a large number of supported formats and provides a high degree of compression. True, in the latter case, you need to make a reservation and say that all archivers in good compression is predominantly on text type files. The multimedia files are practically not compressed when packaging in the archive archive.
Every day, conducted at the computer, makes it possible to enrich your knowledge by downloading new and new programs. When downloading, most often, any users faces the problem of unzipping the file. As you understand, today we will tell how to unzip the RAR file format. But before proceeding to the practical part, it is necessary to understand what archive is and why it is generally needed.
The archive is called compressed documents, file, folder. The archive, in fact, the same folder or file, just another format and has a smaller size, compared with the original. Most often, files are archived for 2 reasons: Well, first, of course, for a slight decrease in the size of the file and, secondly, for convenience, that is, for example, if you have about 100 small files, it was more convenient I would save them in 1 archive and throw off on a carrier than to copy each. Also, this method of storing information significantly increases the transfer rate to various removable media.
How to unpack the RAR file format?
In order to unzip the fileTo begin with, you need to download the software you need. In fact, there are more programs to unzip files, but we will show on the example of the most famous, such as "WinRAR". The process of unzipping the file takes about 1 minute, depending on how much the archive weighs. "WinRAR" - a program for unpacking archives. You can download this unpacker from the official site. After that, it will be necessary to install it on the system disk. Next, you need to rightly click on the archive with the right button, then click on the item "Open with ...". After that, a window with programs appears in front of you, but this list may not have the desired program, then we make the following steps: "My computer" - "disk with" - "Program Files" - "WinRAR". Next, also with one click choosing a file called "WinRAR" and click on the "Open" button.
After that, this program will appear in your main list, then simply with one click click on this file and then the "OK" button. After that, a window appears before you, you will need to click on the button in the main panel "Extract ...". After that, you need to specify the path, that is, the place where all information in the archive will be removed and click "OK". After the ripping process is over, it is necessary to simply turn off the program and find the place where you unzipped it. Another nuance, all unzipped information will be in a separate folder, and the name will correspond to the name of the archive.
