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Old 12-08-2007   #1 (permalink)
julio12


 
 

problem with uncompressing a RAR file

I tried several times to uncompressed a RAR file following the intructions
provided but the file desnt open.What shoul I do?

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Old 12-08-2007   #2 (permalink)


Vista x64 Ultimate SP2, Windows 7 Ultimate x64
 
 

Re: problem with uncompressing a RAR file

Quote  Quote: Originally Posted by julio12 View Post
I tried several times to uncompressed a RAR file following the intructions
provided but the file desnt open.What shoul I do?
Hi 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
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Old 12-08-2007   #3 (permalink)
Malke


 
 

Re: problem with uncompressing a RAR file

julio12 wrote:
Quote:

> I tried several times to uncompressed a RAR file following the intructions
> provided but the file desnt open.What shoul I do?
Instructions provided by what? Do you have an unzipper that will handle
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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Old 12-08-2007   #4 (permalink)
Mike Hall - MVP


 
 

Re: problem with uncompressing a RAR file

Alzip will handle .rar files..

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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?
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Old 12-09-2007   #5 (permalink)
Gene K


 
 

Re: 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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