Open / use a RAR file in win7??

looking for freeware to Open / use a RAR file in win7

On 1/26/2010 4:59 PM, LouB wrote:
> looking for freeware to Open / use a RAR file in win7

If you google for "freeware rar extractor" [without the quotes] you will
find more than you can ever use. Almost any of them should work fine with
any version of W7 but if you find one that won't try the next one on the
list...

"LouB" <> wrote in message
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> looking for freeware to Open / use a RAR file in win7


I use Free RAR extract Frog:
http://download.cnet.com/Free-RAR-Ex...-10804840.html
Works fine in W7.
:-)
Grenou

"LouB" <> wrote in message
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> looking for freeware to Open / use a RAR file in win7


http://download.cnet.com/Free-RAR-Ex...-10804840.html
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On 1/26/2010 4:59 PM, LouB wrote:
> looking for freeware to Open / use a RAR file in win7
Having recently been in your position, I discovered that 7 zip was the
best of those I tried.
Jeff

On 1/26/2010 5:07 PM, Grenou wrote:
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> "LouB" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> looking for freeware to Open / use a RAR file in win7
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> I use Free RAR extract Frog:
> http://download.cnet.com/Free-RAR-Ex...-10804840.html
> Works fine in W7.
> :-)
> Grenou
Was not crazy about this one because it extracts to a subfolder of where
you are. There is a complicated way to tell it where to extract to but
I think 7zip is easier to use.
Jeff

wrote:
> On 1/26/2010 4:59 PM, LouB wrote:
>> looking for freeware to Open / use a RAR file in win7
> Having recently been in your position, I discovered that 7 zip was the
> best of those I tried.
> Jeff
Thanks

LouB wrote:
> looking for freeware to Open / use a RAR file in win7


Use Peazip. It will open, read and extract the following:

# Read (browse, extract, test) 118 file extensions

* 7z, bz, bz2, bzip2, tbz2, tbz, gz, gzip, tgz, tpz, tar, zip, z01,
smzip, arj, cab, chm, chi, chq, chw, hxs, hxi, hxr, hxq, hxw, lit, cpio,
deb, lzh, lha, rar, r01, 00, rpm, z, taz, tz, iso, jar, ear, war, lha,
pet, pup, pak, pk3, pk4, slp, [Content], xpi, wim, u3p, lzma86, lzma,
udf, xar, dmg, hfs, part1, split, swm, tpz, kmz, xz, txz, vhd, mslz,
apm, mbr, fat, ntfs, exe, dll, sys, msi, msp, ods, ots, odm, oth, oxt,
odb, odf, odg, otg, odp, otp, odt, ott, gnm, doc, dot, xls, xlt, ppt,
pps, pot, docx, dotx, xlsx, xltx, swf, flv, quad, balz, zpaq, paq8f,
paq8jd, paq8l, paq8o, lpaq1, lpaq5, lpaq8, ace, arc, wrc, 001, pea

why not use

http://www.winrar.de/

It is not totally freeware but at least for extraction you can use it.

greetings

Roland Schweiger

In article <>, LouB says...
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> looking for freeware to Open / use a RAR file in win7

J-Zip. Based on 7-Zip but with a Winzip like front end.

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