Windows 11 users can now manage RAR archives natively, with no need for third-party software or questionable archive "unpackers." Windows 11 22H2, the past year's last major...

Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library::undefined

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The problem being average people don’t tend to understand what a zip file is, I regularly have to explain that you can’t run an executable from a zip

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You can though, Windows just prompts you to extract it if needed and it’s all fairly user friendly.

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