Forum Discussion

BeckettShaw's avatar
BeckettShaw
Iron Contributor
Jul 07, 2025

Best program to extract rar files in windows 10 without winzip software

Unfortunately, Windows 10 is still unable to extract rar files. Not sure why Microsoft does not provide a built in feature to open .rar archives in Windows 11 and Windows 10. By the way, I didn't lik...
FaniJocuri's avatar
FaniJocuri
Iron Contributor
Jul 07, 2025

WinRAR CLI is a free program to let you open and extract .rar files in Windows 10 in a command line interface.

The WinRAR command line refers to the ability to use WinRAR’s tools via a terminal or PowerShell to compress, extract, or manage archive files through text-based commands instead of the graphical interface.

These tools are installed along with the desktop version of WinRAR and are typically located in:

C:\Program Files\WinRAR\

Common WinRAR Command Line Tools:

  • rar.exe – Used for creating and managing RAR archives.
  • unnrar.exe – Used for extracting files from RAR archives.
  •  

How to extract a RAR file in Windows 10 with winzip software:

unnrar x "C:\Path\To\Archive.rar" "C:\Destination\Folder\"

x – Extract with full path

e – Extract without full path (just files)

Notes:

You can run these commands from PowerShell or CMD.

Make sure the path to unnrar.exe or rar.exe is either added to the system PATH or included in your command.

The command line tools are powerful for scripting batch compression/extraction tasks.

Resources