Windows will open RAR files, but to convert files to RAR format, you can make use of WinRAR or these free online tools. We show you how!

RAR files are a counterpart to ZIP files, and can be quite nifty to work with. We explain what a RAR file is, and how to open RAR files.

This guide shows how to split or combine RAR files in Windows 11/10 using WinRAR, a popular free file compression/archiver software.

Windows Explorer, the native file manager in Windows, can extract data from ZIP files but it does not open RARs. You need a third-party application to extract the contents of a RAR file.