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A free lightweight program for extracting and opening compressed files quickly and easily

A free lightweight program for extracting and opening compressed files quickly and easily

Vote: (1 votes)

Program license: Free

Developer: Tiny Opener

Works under: Windows

Vote:

Program license

(1 votes)

Free

Developer

Tiny Opener

Works under:

Windows

Pros

  • Very easy to use
  • Lightweight and free app for Windows 10
  • Can now handle various archive file formats in addition to RAR

Cons

  • Lacks more advanced features offered by other tools in its category
  • May display ads promoting other apps

Unpack RAR files quickly and easily.

RAR Opener is part of the Tiny Opener lineup of utilities. It's a simple and small app that allows you to extract files in RAR archives in just a few clicks.

Having a program that can instantly open RAR files for you is likely to come in very handy if you often download files shared through P2P software or open source program repositories. The RAR archive file format is often used to distribute files like software, movies or photo collections. RAR archives are a popular way of distributing files online because they allow thousands of files and folders to be packed into an archive, which is then compressed to reduce its size as much as possible. RAR archives can be created as a single file or split into multiple parts to make them easier to download on slower Internet connections.

While the app's main purpose is to open RAR files, RAR Opener's latest edition has been updated to include support for many other archive file formats, including ZIP, 7Z, TAR and LZH. Using it is very simple, you just browse to the location of the compressed file, open it and choose the destination where it should be unpacked. The app will do the rest of the work for you.

RAR Opener has been designed for optimal performance and unpacks RAR files as fast as possible. However, as RAR archives are compressed, your computer will need to do a bit of work to extract the original files. While most RAR files can be unpacked in a few seconds, very large ones may take two or three minutes to fully unpack. You can minimize RAR Opener and let it run in the background so that it doesn't get in your way if you want to use other programs while extracting the contents of a big RAR file.

RAR Opener works perfectly under Window 10. You can get instant access to your unpacked files from the Live Tile and pin the app to Start to easily access it.

This little utility will meet your needs if you just need an app that unpacks compressed archives. It doesn't have more advanced functions offered by archive managers like WinRAR, such as creating archives or modifying the files included in them.

RAR Opener is free to use. However, you'll be shown several offers to download some third-party apps during the installation process and the program will sometimes display a small popup ad that promotes software from Tiny Opener's partners.

Pros

  • Very easy to use
  • Lightweight and free app for Windows 10
  • Can now handle various archive file formats in addition to RAR

Cons

  • Lacks more advanced features offered by other tools in its category
  • May display ads promoting other apps