Winrar is a program that users of torrents commonly use to unpack a file called a rar. These files are similar to zip files in that they are packed into smaller files for ease of downloading and opening. Each rar file can contain hundreds of other files with many different file extensions such as .exe, .zip, .dll and .bin. Winrar will open all of these files in a short period of time once they are downloaded.
Click on your "Start" button. Open "All Programs" and find Winrar in your program list. Click on the shortcut on the submenu named Winrar. This will open the program and ready it for use.
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Click "Close" on the box that pops up alerting you that this is not freeware so that you can use the program. Once this window is gone, a list will generate inside the frame of your program window. This is a list of all possible files that you can open in this session. If you do not see the file you are looking for, go to the top-left corner of the screen and click on "File." In this submenu, click on "Open Archive." Now you can navigate to the file you wish to open. Click "Open" in the box once you have located your file.
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Double-click on the file that you wish to unrar inside the white portion of the window box that is open for Winrar. This opens the file so that all of the rar files inside the mother file are opened. Now you can choose the file you wish to open further from this section of available files. Once you find the file you want, again double-click on it to open.
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A new window will pop up that says "Extracting From OS.7z"; this is the Winrar file type. You will see two bars, one for the amount of the file extracted and one for the amount of the file that has been processed onto your hard drive. If you want to pause this extraction, simply hit the "Pause" button on the bottom-right corner of the box.
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Find the .exe file on the screen. This is the executable file or the file extension that begins the process of opening your file. Click on the .exe file, and this will set the program or file in motion. You have just used Winrar to unrar a rar file.
