What is a RAR file? RAR is a proprietary file format for compressing files. It’s been around since the mid-1990s and was developed by a Russian engineer called Eugene Roshal. That’s why RAR stands for ...

Earlier this year, we reported on Microsoft expanding its compression support in Windows 11 to include native RAR, 7-Zip, and other file formats that aren't your basic ZIP files. For those that have ...

If you ask anyone which software they use to archive or extract files on Windows, chances are that they either use WinRAR or 7-Zip. After all, these are the two most popular tools for this purpose.

There was a time that Windows didn't have decompression and archiving tools built into the OS, with many people resorting to ...