Featured Free-ware: RarZilla

When all you've acquired is a sludge hammer, every difficulty appears like a nail suspiciously. RarZilla is a great little utility for automatically "unraring" RAR archives, but it's incompatible with any other archive format. Depending on what you're searching for, the program--which is also available in a lightweight version--is either just the tool you need or woefully inadequate. The program does indeed a terrific job of unzipping--sorry, unraring--RARs, and it supplies three strategies for reaching that lofty target. You can choose the "RarZilla!" alternative from the wording menu linked with any RAR data file in Windows Explorer, you can double-click the RAR, or you can drag and drop the RAR onto the system program. To aid in the last one, the program is permanently set to live on top unless you minimize it. I found that extremely annoying, but your mileage might change. It extracts the compressed files to the same folder in which the RAR lives.