Rar archives can be protected with a password that has to be supplied before the archive can be unpacked on a computer system. Problems do arise if the password of an archive is not known (anymore). One could try and enter possible combinations manually which could take years to complete or use a rar password [...]
Free Winrar 3.62 License
German computer magazine PC Welt (PC World) is running a promotion in their newest issue which was just released in Germany. They are providing their readers with a free license key to Winrar 3.62 which can be used with the German and English edition of Winrar. Winrar 3.62 is obviously not the latest version of [...]
Extract several archives with multiple volumes at once
I recently downloaded 24 files that have been split into multiple rar files. Each of the 24 files began with x.rar and ended at x.r24 with x being a number between 1 and 24. I did not want to right-click all 24 files one by one and select Extract Here from the menu because this meant a lot of work. I had to stay at the computer all the time as well to initiate the next process.
Create Recoverable archives with Quickpar
I have explained the concept of par files before. In short, they can be used to repair any rar file that is part of the archive as long as the blocks of the par file are at least of the same size than the corrupt rar parts. A software like Quickpar can be used to split big files into smaller ones and create several par files to be able to recover the whole archive if part of it gets corrupted.
How to extract multiple independent rar files
Extracting multiple independent rar files did take some time in the past until I found out how to do this with just a few clicks of the mouse. The rar files should be in the same directory for this method. Just mark all rar files, right-click the marked area and select to uninstall all files in this location.
