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[coraa]

What's your favorite program/utility/doohicky/whatsit for un-rar-ing .rar files?

How about .tar.gz files?

Parameters: I'm running Windows 7 and prefer not to open a command line just to extract files. Free or inexpensive please.

EDIT: 7zip looks like it fits my requirements quite well, so I'm going with that. Thank you, everyone!

Comments

[erik]

I use RAR Frog for RARs.

[cxcvi]

On Windows? Probably 7-Zip. Handles both (and the less common .tar.bz2 as well). Sits nicely in the Windows context menu. Can also be used for .zip instead of Windows' builtin method.

On Linux, though, I prefer using commandline unrar and tar -xvzf. Especially because Squeeze seems to hate me...

[oyceter]

Dittoing the 7ziP rec!

[cwendy41.livejournal.com]

Used to use WinRAR. Haven't used it in a while. It was free for about a month or so. I think it stopped working after that? Don't know how much it cost.

.RARRR ::velociraptor arms::

[ceph.livejournal.com]

The unzipper running on my Windows partition is called 7zip, but I can't for the life of me recall why I chose it--I don't use it that often. It seems to work well enough and supports quite a wide variety of formats.

[cwendy41.livejournal.com]

From Wikipedia:
Third-party programs that can only read (unpack) RAR files include: WinZip (Windows), RarZilla (Windows), 7-Zip (multiplatform), IZArc (Windows), PeaZip (Windows, Linux), Zipeg (Windows, Mac OS X), and ALZip (Windows)...

I've used WinZip before too, though I don't remember if it was ever for rar files or just regular zip files.

[canis-ridens.livejournal.com]

I use PeaZip. I forgot why I stopped using 7zip; I think it was because it couldn't handle as much as PeaZip, but that may have been remedied by now.

[donaithnen.livejournal.com]

I got the evaluation copy of WinRAR for free, and although it started nagging me after awhile it still continues to unrar rar files.

[larryhammer]

This -- it's nagware, but it doesn't stop working.

---L.