

You can download the software from RAR Lab, and unarchive, but it keeps prompting you to buy the software.

The primary software, RAR Lab that can manage RAR files offer tons of functionality including better compression, the option to split compressed files, and later rejoin them, higher security feature, and so on. If you are wondering why was there a need for another compression technology? It’s about functionality. By default, Windows doesn’t recognize RAR file format. We will have to use third-party free compression software to uncompress a RAR file to extract all the files and folders inside it. While you can open RAR files in Windows 11/10, it’s not supported by default. Just like any other compressed file, RAR files are proprietary archive file that supports data compression, error recovery and file spanning. Can Windows 11/10 open RAR files? Yes, Windows 11/10 can open RAR files.
