Open RAR5 file

RAR5 files: what are they and how do I open them?

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WinRAR 5 compressed archive

An rar5 file extension is related to the WinRAR compression utility and it is used to identify WinRAR 5 compressed archives.

Further details:

The rar5 file extension is associated with the WinRAR a compression tool for Microsoft Windows operating system. In the current version number 5 was introduced a new compression algorithm RAR5.

RAR5 features:

  • 1GB dictionary (only in 64-bit version)
  • better multicore support
  • removes multimedia, text and itanium binaries special compression algorithms

This compression format cannot be managed by older versions of WinRAR.

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WinRAR

One of the oldest and most popular shareware file archiver and data compression utility

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