Free open rar archives software for windows

A graphical utility which accepts a directory as input and will repair/verify any PAR/PAR2/SFV/MD5 files in that directory Once Par-N-Rar verifies a set of files in that folder, it will automatically attempt to unRAR them.
Once Par-N-Rar finishes unRARing a RAR archive, it will (optionally) remove the original PAR/RAR files so you can free up space on your hard drive.
Par-N-Rar is a utility that automatically repairs and verifies PAR, PAR2, SFV, and MD5 files, then unRARs any RAR files it finds.
If a .001 file is found and it cannot be unRARed, Par-N-Rar will assume it is a split file set and put together any files in that set (.002, .003, etc).

Zipeg is free Macintosh utility for Mac OS X.
Zipeg allows quickly and easily open and explore content of zip, rar, arj and other archives, preview files and images before you extract/unzip them. Extract only the files you want.
Many documents and pictures such as jpeg files come to your mailbox as zip archives. Zipeg allows you to decide what do you want to extract before your polute your disk with gazillions of items.
Using Zipeg you can double click on the item and automatically open the document in Preview or your preferred application before you extract it.
You can choose what to extract and where to put extracted files.
* see whats inside BEFORE you extract;
* open files in Preview directly from the archive;
* see image thumbnails (EXIF) in tooltips;
* extract items simply by draging them;
* easy-to-use user interface;
* resource fork and Finder attributes support;
* archives are processed in background;
* supports variety of archive formats:new
RAR, ARJ, 7-zip, TAR, GZ, GZ, BZIP2, CPIO, LZH and more ...
* explore CD and DVD ".iso" image files;
* reports cumulative contents size of subfolders;
* customizable destination and source of extraction;
* settings are persisted between sessions;
* seamless keyboard navigation;
* autopath completion for destination folders;
* automatic updates;
* universal binary for Apple Macintosh OS X;
* freeware

SeaRCHZIPRar is the fastest drive level recursive across-folders files finder for ZIP and RAR archives. You can specify substring of filename(s) or filename extensions. Wild cards supported. You can do anything on the found files just while you search.
Main features:
- File(s) finder for ZIP or RAR archives with substring search and wild card support.
- DOS commandline utility to look inside ZIR or RAR archives.
- Supports the question mark ("?") and the asterisk("*") wild card characters. The question mark character also helps in looking for space-separated long filenames.
- Has special switch to find specified substring in initial part of filename(s).
- Users can go to the command prompt just while hopping from one archive to another or between the listing of pages of filenames from an archive.
- Each page-sized listing from an archive prompts the user to
- either proceed and list more
- or invoke COMMAND.COM and log to archives folder (EXITing from COMMAND.COM continues the search)
- or stop search and log to archives folder
- or log back to the starting working folder to let user invoke this program again with a new search specification.
- The last page-sized listing from an archive prompts the user to
- either proceed with the next archive
- or invoke COMMAND.COM and log to archives folder (EXITing from COMMAND.COM continues the search)
- or stop search and log to archives folder
- or log back to the starting working folder to let user invoke this program again with a new search specification.
- Prompts to look inside more archives even when searched file or substring has already been found.
- Lists matching filenames with path as stored in the archive as heading.
- Displays uncompressed size of files.
- Root name of archive files need not be known.
- Names of files in all ZIP or RAR archives located in all the directories (folders) on a floppy disk / Hard Disk drive / partition / CD can be sent to file for sophisticated search with GREP.COM later.
- Especially useful for those who keep a lot of files in compressed ZIP and/or RAR archives.
- Archives can be anywhere on a disk partition / CD.
- Particularly useful on large software distribution media like magazine cover CDs, shareware CDs, etc. which compulsorily have files in compressed format.
- Versatile.
- ZDNet 3-Star Rated (SeaRCHZIPRar v1.1).
- Unrestricted software.