2. How to install WinRAR ?
3. How to Extract RAR files ?
This tutorial walks you through the installation process of WinRAR and suggests configuration settings for efficient usage of this application.
You are bound to come across files ending with the .rar file extension, including .part1.rar, .part01.rar and so on. What's nifty about WinRAR is that while it has complete support for RAR and ZIP archives, it is also capable of unpacking various other types of archives, including ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, EXE, 7z, and Z.
If you're running the 64-bit version of Windows, then click on the link titled "WinRAR x64" on the webpage after following the link provided above.
Once the download is complete, go ahead and run the file by double-clicking it.
You will be presented with a the following window
Click the button titled "Install".
The installation process only takes a few seconds.
Following this, you will be presented with options to customise the application's behaviour.
Click the button titled "Context menu items..." located under "Shell Integration".
In this new window, untick the following options under "Choose items to display in Explorer context menus":
Extract each archive to separate folder
Open with WinRAR (for SFX archives)
Add to [archive name]
Compress to [archive name] and email
Compress and email...
Thus keeping only the following options selected:
Extract Here
Extract to [folder\]
Add to archive...
