The new native support for RAR files in Windows 11 will allow users to open and extract RAR files without having to install any additional software.

Open the folder that contains the RAR format you want to extract. Right-click the RAR file, highlight the "Open with" option and select the compression utility you installed.

Earlier this year, we reported on Microsoft expanding its compression support in Windows 11 to include native RAR, 7-Zip, and other file formats that aren't your basic ZIP files. For those that ...

With the upcoming native RAR support in Windows 11, users will be able to effortlessly open and extract RAR files without the need for any external tools or utilities.

There are numerous tools that can extract RAR file format on Microsoft Windows. These tools provide the same core functionality to extract and allow you to explore more options for RAR files. In ...

ZIP is a popular file compression format, but Windows has allowed you to natively open ZIP files for years now. However, the platform doesn’t support the long-running WinRAR file compression ...

Windows Explorer, the native file manager in Windows, can extract data from ZIP files but it does not open RARs. You need a third-party application to extract the contents of a RAR file.