Problem opening a RAR File


  1. hanabowt
    Posts : 1
    Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit
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    Problem opening a RAR File


    Now call me stupid if you want but I recently downloaded a file from the internet and went to open it when I was told by a little pop-up box that ( Something like this ) windows cannot open the file as it needs to know what programe created it, I was given two choices 1 search the internet or 2 open with the list of programes.

    So please what I would like to know is
    1. What is a RAR File ?
    2. Whats the best approach to opening it ?
    3. Are they safe for my system ?
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  3. Golden
    Posts : 19,383
    Windows 10 Pro x64 ; Xubuntu x64
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    How safe it is depends on what's in it and where you downloaded it from. We wouldn't know.

    Download and use 7 Zip to open the RAR archive to examine the contents.
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  4. Pauly
    Posts : 2,573
    Win7 Ultimate X64
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    A rar file is a compressed file similar to a zip file, the rar format is common and poses no problem.
    Are they safe for your system ? this depends on what is inside it and/or where you got it from

    Personally I use 7zip for all my compressed/zip files, its lightweight and free and will deal with most files
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