Windows 10: Did not use the default software I had set when opening the downloaded rar file through the...

When opening downloaded RAR files through the browser, it will only use Explorer to open RAR files. After switching the default software and testing, it is unrelated to the software being used. Even if I change the default opening method for RAR to an image viewer the normal result should be an error message, it will still open RAR with Explorer. This is also independent of the type of browser; I tried Firefox, Edge, and Vivaldi, and the same phenomenon occurred in all cases. Only when double-clicking to open RAR files within Explorer will it use the default opening method I have set.

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Corrupted file RAR

If the archive has been created using WinRAR, why don't you try WinRAR itself? It has a built-in repair feature for repairing corrupted archive (ZIP as well as RAR). Follow the steps given below:

• Open WinRAR application in your system.
• Now click on File tab > Open or simply press Ctrl+O.
• A small window "Find Archive" will pop up. Locate the corrupt RAR archive from your system directory and select it.
• Now click Open button.
• Click Tools tab > Repair archive or simply press Alt+R.
• Again a small window "Repairing File name.rar" will pop up.
• Now click Browse to select a location to save the repaired archive.
• Check the box "Treat the corrupt archive as RAR" and click OK.
• WinRAR will start repairing of corrupt RAR archive. Once it gets completed click Close.

I hope the above steps will help you repair the corrupted RAR archive.

Thanks.

 

.RAR Files only download and open in notepad.

The file downloads correctly, but since you assigned .rar to Notepad, it doesn't respond like it normally should. But no worries.

Right-click on a .rar and select Open with...

Choose a program that can open the .rar format and make it the default for all .rar archives. Ta da!

 

Trouble extracting Rar files

make sure you are extracting it to the place your looking and not a default rar folder where they all go.

just to be sure, create a new folder on your desktop then drag the rar file onto it and drop it in. then open the "new folder" you created and then select "extract here"

if its not there after that then you have a bad or incomplete rar file and you will have to redownload it or another file containing the same exe file you want.

as a rule it is best to never download zip or rar files as they are often viruses so be carefull