What Is RAR File Extension? How to Open it?

RAR is a file extension associated with Windows Miscellaneous file type category. Invalid associations of RAR file may bring you various file extension errors. If you have trouble with opening RAR files or encounter any associated errors, you can scan the system to identify and fix RAR file extension association errors with RAR file extension fixer.

Can not open RAR file extension? You may encounter such problems that you are unable to open email attachments with file extensions like RAR. You're unable to handle the files of File Extension downloaded from the Internet. You failed to view the graphic files of RAR File Extension. You can't to play movies, video or other multimedia files of this File Extension. We call these problems as “file extension problems”. You can learn tips about how to open unknown file extensions and how to fix the file extension errors from http://www.advancedfilefixer.com/. Moreover, we provide you with additional knowledge of the Windows file extensions. RAR file extension is one of the normal Windows file extensions. You are not the only one who receive RAR file extension error message like other Windows users.

RAR files come in handy when you want to transfer large amounts of information across the internet. Since uploading a large file may take up to a couple of hours, it is highly useful to just convert these files into RAR archive and send them. RAR files are compressed forms of the actual files.
Compression not only reduces the amount of bandwidth occupied during transfer, it also makes the transfer faster and much more efficient. RAR archives also come in handy when you have less space on your computer. You can compress the files that do not use and free some space on your disk. RAR usually compresses information very efficiently, much more efficiently than any other algorithms used to compress files on the computer or on the internet.

Since the compression is very precise and accurate, the time taken for the job is slightly more. However, this time factor is nominal in front of the quality of compression that RAR files provide. RAR files are highly advanced and provide many customization and protection options. You can create multiple volume archives using RAR. You can also password protect your archive in case you want complete privacy from external users. RAR archives also allow you to perform solid compression.

There are various applications that are capable of opening RAR files. These applications include WinRAR, 7 Zip, IZArc, PeaZip, Zipeg, and ALZip. You can even send folders through the internet using RAR. You simply have to compress the folder and put it into the RAR file. Then you can upload the folder within seconds and send it to anyone through the internet. This is highly useful in case of transfer of presentations and programs as well. In fact, you can transfer ant kind of files you want to by compressing them into RAR format.
RAR files not always have file extension RAR. Sometimes they can be stored under different extension (for example TMP). To check whether file is actual RAR archive you have to check if it has Rar word at the very beginning of the file (when it is opened in binary mode).