How Do I View a CBR File?
CBR stands for comic book RAR archive. CBR files contain JPEG, PNG or GIF images compressed into a RAR file, with the extension changed to CBR. They allow for easy viewing of sequential images, such as comic book scans, without having to store each image as a separate file. You can view a CBR file using a comic book viewer program. Alternatively, you can extract the images from a CBR file and view them individually.
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Instructions
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Comic Book Viewer
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Download and install a comic book viewer program. Free comic book viewers include Comical, CDisplayEx and eComic.
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Right-click the CBR file and click "Open with." Select the comic book viewer you just installed.
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Check the box marked "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" if you want this program to automatically open CBR files when you double-click them. Click "OK."
Extract RAR File
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Set Windows Explorer to show file extensions, if you cannot already see the CBR extension. To do this, open a folder and click "Organize," then "Folder and search options." Select the "View" tab, uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types," and click "OK."
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Right-click the CBR file and click "Rename." Delete the "cbr" after the period and type "rar" instead.
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Download and install a program that can compress and extract RAR files, such as WinRAR or 7-Zip.
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Right-click in a blank area in an existing folder, select "New" and click "Folder" to create a new folder to hold the extracted images. Name the folder and press "Enter." Drag-and-drop the RAR file into this folder.
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Open the folder and right-click the RAR file. Choose the "Extract Here" option for whatever RAR archive program you have installed.
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Double-click the extracted image files to open them in Windows Photo Viewer, or whatever other program you have set as the default picture viewer.
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Tips & Warnings
Comic book archive files can also have the extension CBZ, meaning they were created from a renamed ZIP archive rather than a renamed RAR archive.
References
- FileInfo.com; CBR File Extension; May 2008
- FileInfo.com; RAR File Extension; January 2011
- Windows: Change the Program That Opens a Type of File
- Microsoft Support; How to Show or Hide File Name Extensions in Windows Explorer; May 2011
- Windows: Create a New Folder
- Newsgroup Reviews: How to Extract / UnRAR with 7-Zip
