One of a reader reported us a simple problem on how to open compressed RAR file format when you don’t have WinRAR installed, or some times a user may not know what .rar file mean and which program to use to open .rar file.

This is quite common and simple trouble which can be easily dealt with two type of solutions.

Let’s see what are the two potential fixes to this problem.

Fix:

Two Method to solve the problem are listed below

Method 1:

You can simply open .RAR file by downloading the shareware version of WinRAR from here, but it would be a shareware version it wont offer full features of WinRAR

Method 2:

The complete solution to this problem could be solved by using a open source, free compression and decompression software called 7-Zip, download it from here.

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