What is a rar file? can a regular zip file open it?

The RAR is type of archived files. Yes it kind of like zip file. No, most probably regular zip can’t open the RAR file. From my experience you can open RAR file with WinRAR archiver program. It is free to try (I thing, for 30 days). There are other types of archive files exist that you could meet on the net, like: tar, gz, etc. There are so many of them now I wouldn’t even try to list all of them here :).

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Alex K

You can get the latest version of Winrar here: http://bit.ly/1o0M15D

I like Winrar because it's a very good program to compress/decompress files in many different formats. You could also use other programs like 7zip or winzip for the same purpose but I think Winrar is the best option avalable. The funcionalities are pretty much the same for each program (you basically do everything with a simple right-click of your mouse) but Winrar is by far the best option.

The things I like about winrar is that it opens a bunch of compressed formats: .zip, .rar, .7z / 7zip, .iso, .tar, .jar etc. (much more than the other programs) and that it's 100% (trial period never expired so you can use it for free with no limitations)

These are the reasons why I recommend Winrar.

I like alzip. It opens zip, rar, and others.

no, .rar is a COMPLETELY different compression format that .zip. I recommend .rar because it is a lot more efficient. You can download the client at http://rarlab.com/

Hi there,

You can get Winrar for free here http://j.mp/1p3PnWn

WinRar is the software you need to decompress all kind of compressed files, documents or folders.

good luck.

It's a compressed archive, and nope, regular Winzip won't do the trick. WinRAR will work though.

No you need WinRaR. you can get it from download.com