
Microsoft will add native RAR support in Windows 11 soon, so you won’t need a third-party application. There is no native support within Windows to handle them, yet. Unfortunately, this type of compression isn’t free.

Yes, third-party software is needed to work with them. Do I need an application to open RAR files? This way, you have a copy of all the extracted files in a new folder, instead of working with the files directly in the compressed state. Like Zip files, a RAR file takes any type of file and compresses it to a smaller version. It was developed by a Russian software engineer named Eugene Roshal. It’s a type of compression for files that is not an open format. There are various compressed files, and 7-Zip does an outstanding job of being able to extract most of them. The files will be extracted from the RAR file and stored in the folder 7-Zip you selected. Hover over 7-Zip and select Extract to (named folder). To open RAR files, download and install 7-Zip and proceed to right-click on the RAR file you wish to open.

It is perfect to compress and unpack files.
