Open RAR archive file Click the open icon on the toolbar, browse to your file with the.RAR file extension and click OK. You can also open it by dragging and dropping the file directly into Zipware's main window. The below screenshot shows an example of an open RAR file with many folders inside it. So you have come across a RAR file and you need what's inside. This is how to open a RAR file on Windows 10, the easy way. There are many various types of compressed files, one program does an outstanding job of dealing with most of them. Let's begin by going through each step. Steps to open a RAR file. Download and install 7-Zip.
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WinRAR 6.00 64-bit
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Latest WinRAR Version| Size | Platform | |
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| WinRAR 6.00 English 64 bit | 3255 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 English 32 bit | 3024 KB | Windows |
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| WinRAR 5.91 Arabic 64 bit | 3207 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Armenian 64 bit | 3301 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 5.71 Azerbaijani 64 bit | 3113 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 5.71 Belarusian 64 bit | 3120 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Bulgarian 64 bit | 3312 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 5.71 Burmese (Myanmar) 64 bit | 3106 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Catalan 64 bit | 3206 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Chinese Simplified 64 bit | 3373 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Chinese Traditional 64 bit | 3516 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Croatian 64 bit | 3303 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 5.91 Czech 64 bit | 3370 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Danish 64 bit | 3297 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Dutch 64 bit | 3587 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 English 64 bit | 3255 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 5.71 Estonian 64 bit | 3110 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Euskera 64 bit | 3205 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Finnish 64 bit | 3300 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 French 64 bit | 3357 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Galician 64 bit | 3203 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 5.91 Georgian 64 bit | 3198 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 German 64 bit | 3401 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Greek 64 bit | 3313 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Hebrew 64 bit | 3295 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Hungarian 64 bit | 3306 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Indonesian 64 bit | 3299 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Italian 64 bit | 3467 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 5.91 Japanese 64 bit | 3308 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Korean 64 bit | 3359 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Lithuanian 64 bit | 3334 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Mongolian 64 bit | 3308 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Norwegian 64 bit | 3299 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 5.91 Persian 64 bit | 3208 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Polish 64 bit | 3504 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Portuguese 64 bit | 3299 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Portuguese Brazilian 64 bit | 5688 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Romanian 64 bit | 3303 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Russian 64 bit | 3470 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Serbian Cyrillic 64 bit | 3475 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Slovak 64 bit | 3389 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Slovenian 64 bit | 3286 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Spanish 64 bit | 3203 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Spanish Colombian 64 bit | 3389 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Swedish 64 bit | 3298 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Thai 64 bit | 3325 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Turkish 64 bit | 3298 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Ukrainian 64 bit | 3303 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 5.71 Uzbek 64 bit | 3139 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 5.71 Vietnamese 64 bit | 3117 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 5.91 Arabic 32 bit | 2996 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Armenian 32 bit | 3071 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 5.71 Azerbaijani 32 bit | 2908 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 5.71 Belarusian 32 bit | 2915 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Bulgarian 32 bit | 3083 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 5.71 Burmese (Myanmar) 32 bit | 2901 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Catalan 32 bit | 3136 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Chinese Simplified 32 bit | 3145 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Chinese Traditional 32 bit | 3289 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Croatian 32 bit | 3072 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 5.91 Czech 32 bit | 3159 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Danish 32 bit | 3067 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Dutch 32 bit | 3359 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 English 32 bit | 3024 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 5.71 Estonian 32 bit | 2905 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Euskera 32 bit | 3134 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Finnish 32 bit | 3070 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 French 32 bit | 3129 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Galician 32 bit | 3133 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 5.91 Georgian 32 bit | 2988 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 German 32 bit | 3160 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Greek 32 bit | 3083 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Hebrew 32 bit | 3066 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Hungarian 32 bit | 3073 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Indonesian 32 bit | 3070 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Italian 32 bit | 3238 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 5.91 Japanese 32 bit | 3099 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Korean 32 bit | 3128 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Lithuanian 32 bit | 3104 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Mongolian 32 bit | 3078 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Norwegian 32 bit | 3069 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 5.91 Persian 32 bit | 2998 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Polish 32 bit | 3277 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Portuguese 32 bit | 3070 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Portuguese Brazilian 32 bit | 5541 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Romanian 32 bit | 3073 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Russian 32 bit | 3204 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Serbian Cyrillic 32 bit | 3119 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Slovak 32 bit | 3161 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Slovenian 32 bit | 3058 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Spanish 32 bit | 3133 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Spanish Colombian 32 bit | 3158 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Swedish 32 bit | 3068 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Thai 32 bit | 3091 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Turkish 32 bit | 3069 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 6.00 Ukrainian 32 bit | 3072 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 5.71 Uzbek 32 bit | 2934 KB | Windows |
| WinRAR 5.71 Vietnamese 32 bit | 2913 KB | Windows |
| RAR for macOS 64 bit English 6.00 | 576 KB | macOS |
| RAR for Linux 64 bit English 6.00 | 584 KB | Linux |
| RAR for Linux 32 bit English 6.00 | 594 KB | Linux |
| RAR for FreeBSD 64 bit English 6.00 | 588 KB | FreeBSD |
| RAR for FreeBSD 32 bit English 6.00 | 545 KB | FreeBSD |
| RAR for Android 32 bit English 6.00 | 5418 KB | Android |
Computer users downloading television programs or movies from the internet will know that quite often the resulting files are divided into several parts. This can be quite problematic because you have to make sure all the files are available and also make sure they are 100% correct and not corrupted in any way. With the size of high definition TV shows and movie files today, having to download dozens of chunks to make up a complete video file is not unheard of when you're after good quality.
The reason some video files are packaged this way is related to 'scene rules' which lays out various regulations for groups to encode and upload various content to the internet. Files are distributed as a multi part RAR archive, are not compressed but simply stored and split into various sizes depending on their content. A problem with this is all files have to be extracted before you can play the file. This takes time and if your downloaded is high quality, it could require several Gigabytes of free space to unpack.
Thankfully there are ways to play video files directly from inside the multiple part RAR archives without the need to unpack anything.
Here we show you some ways to do it.
RARFileSource
RARFileSource is a Windows DirectShow filter that gives the ability of playing video files directly from a RAR archive to just about any video playing software, it can even be used with something like Windows Media Player. The only real limitations are a slight issue with Windows Media Video files (WMV) and like other RAR playing software, the archive has to be stored and not compressed.
The Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable is required before install, if you don't have it, download and install the 32-bit version or the 64-bit version depending on your system. Also note that software like Windows Media Player will still require extra codecs to be installed for you to be able to play various video formats such as MKV. K-Lite Codec Pack is among the most popular, but watch for the adware on install.
Once Visual C++ and any required codecs are in place, download and install RARFileSource. All you have to do now is either right click on one of the RAR files then choose 'open with' and pick your media player, or open the media player, choose to open a file and select one of the RARs. The media type may have to be changed to all files in the dropdown so you can see RAR archives.
The nice thing about RARFileSource is the ability to open the video file(s) directly from whichever file in the set you click on, so you can easily select video.r88 to open the archive for playing. Another useful option is you can select from multiple videos that are inside the archive, so if you have 2 videos inside, the second can be selected for playback.
Media Players With Built in RAR Support
Software media players have caught up to this requirement and now many of the popular players can do it without the need for extra codecs or software such as WinRAR. Here's a selection of media players with this ability, there are others, these are just examples.
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Media Player Classic – Home Cinema
MPC-HC is a lightweight open source player that produces good quality video. We believe MPC-HC uses a built in modified version of the Directshow filter RARFileSource mentioned above. This brings all the benefits that tool gives you such as loading the video from any one of the archive files and a selector for multiple video files.
Simply drop a RAR file onto the MPC window, 'Open with' or open a file from the menu (File -> Quick Open), if there is more than one video in the archive, a window will allow you to select what to play first.
Download Media Player Classic – Home Cinema (portable version also available)
VLC Media Player
Possibly the most popular free multimedia player, VLC introduced support for playing RAR files directly in version 1.0, although the RAR abilities in VLC are slightly more restrictive than MPC-HC and RARFileSource.
Drop a RAR file onto the VLC window or open one from the menu, make sure to open the first RAR in the set (the xxxxx.RAR file) as VLC won't work correctly if you try to open one of the parts. If there are multiple videos in the archive, it will load the first video and you can cycle through the others with the Next and Previous buttons.
Download VLC Media PLayer (portable version also available)
How to update adobe. Daum PotPlayer
This is by the same developer who created KMPLayer before he sold that and moved on to create PotPlayer. A lot of users who have tried both prefer PotPlayer because it doesn't contain extra things you don't need such as adware and streaming services.
Although it will accept RAR archives, whether you drag and drop or open the main .RAR file or a subsequent part, PotPlayer will not play multiple videos inside the archive. It does actually tell you it's playing video 2 or 3 etc, but in reality is still just replaying the first video.
Download Daum PotPlayer
Dziobas Rar Player
This was one of the first media players to have direct RAR playback and also had a great ability of playing corrupted or partially downloaded videos. Sadly the program never got past an experimental release and hasn't been updated since 2010. As a consequence it doesn't really work too well on newer systems and is a little unstable.
You can get it to work on your Vista/7/8 system better if after the program has been launched, you go to the Filters menu and select 'OpenGl' or 'OpenGl2', XP runs OK out of the box. For the most part though, other video playing software has superseded Dziobas Rar Player which is a shame because it had potential.
Download Dziobas RAR Player
Mounting RAR files as a Virtual Drive
A final way of playing the video inside multiple RAR files is mounting the archive as a virtual drive. This is similar to mounting ISO files as virtual drives and you can play the files without extracting them. There are a couple of tools that do this but neither are fully recommended for various reasons.
Winmount is a shareware tool which can mount RAR archives but the free version only handles file sizes of 20MB, not big enough for this purpose. Another tool is Rar Mount 3, which is completely free. It should work on XP/Vista and 7 32-bit systems but not on any 64-bit, Windows 8/8.1 32-bit works but not without errors.
The useful thing about Rar Mount 3 is you can set it up to mount when right clicking on a RAR file, and then automatically start playing any video file inside the archive. Extensions like MP4 or MOV may need to be added to the three already included. Theoretically this should also work for other things such as RAR'd games.
Download Rar Mount 3
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