Information about .rar File Extension

RAR file is a WinRAR Archive, a proprietary archive file format that supports data compression, error recovery, and file spanning. Like other archives, RAR files are data containers that can store one or several files in the compressed form.

More information about .rar extension: Wikipedia

Common .rar file type descriptions:

WinRAR archive
Архив WinRAR
Rar archive
WinRAR-Archiv
Archivio WinRAR

Applications, associated with .rar files

	WinRAR archiver by Alexander Roshal WinRAR is a powerful compression tool with many integrated additional functions to help you organize your compressed archives. It supports all popular compression formats (RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, Z and 7-Zip)
	7-Zip File Manager by Igor Pavlov 7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
	7-Zip GUI by Igor Pavlov
	WinZip by WinZip Computing, S.L.
	IZArc Archiver by IZSoftware
	HaoZip archiver by HaoZip Software Studio
	PeaZip, file and archive manager by Giorgio Tani PeaZip is an Open Source file and free archive manager: flexible, portable and secure. It can extract, create and convert multiple archives at once, create self-extracting archives, split/join, using strong encryption, secure deletion, advanced search and compare features.
	BandiZip Application by Bandisoft.com
	Windows Media Player by Microsoft Corporation Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers. In addition to being a media player, it includes the ability to rip music from and copy music to compact discs, burn recordable discs in Audio CD format or as data discs with playlists such as an MP3 CD, synchronize content with a digital audio player (MP3 player) or other mobile devices, and enable users to purchase or rent music from a number of online music stores.
	PowerArchiver by ConeXware, Inc. PowerArchiver is a commercial alternative to classic compression utilities. It provides support for virtually all compression formats. It’s powerful, easy to use and versatile.
	VLC media player by VideoLAN Team VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project. VLC supports many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to transcode multimedia files and save them into various formats. The default distribution of VLC includes a large number of free decoding and encoding libraries, avoiding the need for finding/calibrating proprietary plugins and codecs.
	Notepad by Microsoft Corporation Notepad is a simple text editor for Microsoft Windows. It has been included in all versions of Microsoft Windows.
	Hamster Lite Archiver by HamsterSoft
	Internet Explorer by Microsoft Corporation Internet Explorer is a browser produced by the Microsoft Corporation and supplied together with the Windows operating system.
	Bandizip by Bandisoft.com