I tried several times to uncompressed a RAR file following the intructions
provided but the file desnt open.What shoul I do?
problem with uncompressing a RAR file
- 08 Dec 2007 #1
julio12 GuestMy System Specsproblem with uncompressing a RAR file
- 08 Dec 2007 #2
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My System SpecsRe: problem with uncompressing a RAR file
Hi Julio12,
Originally Posted by julio12 
Vista does not handle RAR by default, only ZIP files. You can use the free program 7-Zip to do this in Vista. I have not had any problems with it. After installing it, open the 7-Zip File Manager program and click Tools -> Options, then select the file types you want 7-Zip to handle.
7-Zip
Shawn
- 08 Dec 2007 #3
Malke GuestMy System SpecsRe: problem with uncompressing a RAR file
julio12 wrote:Instructions provided by what? Do you have an unzipper that will handle
> I tried several times to uncompressed a RAR file following the intructions
> provided but the file desnt open.What shoul I do?
RARs? WinRAR does, although it isn't free. I believe 7-Zip will and it
is free.
What are you using?
Malke
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- 08 Dec 2007 #4
Mike Hall - MVP GuestMy System SpecsRe: problem with uncompressing a RAR file
Alzip will handle .rar files..
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"julio12" <julio12@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I tried several times to uncompressed a RAR file following the intructions
> provided but the file desnt open.What shoul I do?
- 09 Dec 2007 #5
Gene K GuestMy System SpecsRe: problem with uncompressing a RAR file
Expansion of RAR files is not native to Vista (or any other version of
Windows that I am aware of) so you will have to obtain third party software
to do the job. Stuffit Expander is free and can expand RAR and many other
compression formats: http://www.stuffit.com/win/expander/index.html .
Gene K
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