How to try Windows 11 native RAR support

The update is coming real soon

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Updated on June 30, 2023

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For years, Windows users rely on third-party apps to open a RAR file.
Thanks to this new update, Windows 11 is seeing native RAR support soon.
Here's how it will work.

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Here’s some good news: native support for additional archive formats has been introduced. With the integration of the open-source project libarchive, Windows 11 will start supporting a wider range of formats, including .tar, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.zst, .tar.xz, .tgz, .tbz2, .tzst, .txz, .rar, .7z, and many others.

Speaking in a blog post while also announcing Copilot for Windows 11, Microsoft’s Panos Panay said that by embracing open-source projects like libarchive, Microsoft demonstrates its commitment to providing a comprehensive and user-friendly experience for Windows users.

It’s been a long time coming. After 30 years since the archive file format was launched to the world for the first time, we’re finally seeing the time when we could extract a RAR file on Windows 11 without any third-party tool like WinRAR.

Formats like TAR were added to the native RAR support in Windows Insider Build 23493.. The updates are now live.

Will WinRAR become a thing of the past once this update is rolled out?

That’s the question. We’re not sure yet – but one thing we know is that WinRAR can still be useful as it supports multithreaded CPU compression and decompression, and handle files of practically unlimited size.