RAR archive extension is very handy to archive huge amounts of files. If you oftentimes load stuff from file hosting services such as Rapidshare, you’ve certainly come across multiple files that were compressed with the .rar extension. Most people employ the commercial WinRar to compact their documents in RAR archives because they are aware of the advantages of encoding files with the format. Using this software, we can achive a big size reduction for the files and folders, and also divide a huge file into several parts to make the archives easier to download.

The problem is we must use an appropriate software to extract RAR archives. Fortunately, there is a number of applications that support opening and extracting Rar archives, so that shouldn’t be a problem anymore. Unfortunately, lots of people still believe that the single available application that supports the RAR files is WinRar itself, a commercial tool. There are actually alternatives.

One of the popular applications that can open RAR archives is 7-zip, which is open source. Besides being a free RAR file extractor and knowing how to deal with the .rar archive extension, this program also recognizes a large number of other file formats. If you consider the variety of file formats supported, you will likely wonder why such a useful software is available for free. It might even be tempting to doubt that it is truly free, but it is truly completely free. Use it and you’ll see it. It can be used for free forever. All features are enabled in the free version. So, visit their website and get the application.

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