Recommendations for RAR decompressing utility

A friend sent me a few video files that are compressed with RAR. Could someone
recommend a small (preferably free) utility that will decompress RAR files, and,
most importantly, will not interfere in any way with Vista's native ZIP
functionality which I am quite happy with. I am not necessarily interested in
anything that has RAR compression capabilities.

I have looked at 7-ZIP, but I am not sure it would interfere with Vista's native
ZIP functionality.


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"Cal Bear '66" <> wrote in message
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>A friend sent me a few video files that are compressed with RAR. Could
>someone recommend a small (preferably free) utility that will decompress
>RAR files, and, most importantly, will not interfere in any way with
>Vista's native ZIP functionality which I am quite happy with. I am not
>necessarily interested in anything that has RAR compression capabilities.
>
> I have looked at 7-ZIP, but I am not sure it would interfere with Vista's
> native ZIP functionality.


Just don't associate .zip files with 7-Zip and you should be fine. That
goes for WinRAR as well, which is not free.

www.rarlabs.com

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