Hi, try www.7zip.org and download the free 7-Zip. In my opinion it's the best zip/unzip utility, and supports rar and other formats. Extraction seems to be quite fast as well compared to, say, WinZip. Hope that helps. -- Why not join my Blind Hobbyist group? To join, send a blank message to blind-hobbyist-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thanks, Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: Ann Medlar To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 5:12 PM Subject: opening RAR files Hi Folks, Is there free software to open .rar files? If so where do I get software? Thanks, Ann