How can I decompress a .rar file?

Question

It's a compressed music CD sent to me by someone.

However, I cannot open it.

Does anybody have any helpful advice or know how to do it? (for free)

I have Windown XP (If that helps)

Answer 1

Download win rar.  Here is a link: http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar38b4.exe

This program is free.  It says it isn't free but just close that  message if you see it.

Once you install this you can just double click the .rar archive.

Answer 2

WinRAR is *not* free.  But 7zip is free, and it's a better program.  http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

Answer 3

Try downloading WINrar

It is used to compress file to .rar, so i believe u can use it to uncompress them

it's not free, but there is a trial so u can dowload it and see if it will let u use it for what u need it for and then delete it.