This tutorial will teach you how to use WinRAR in order to open a series of zipped files, usually with the file extensions of .rar .r00 .r01 .r02 etc. The only times that I've ran into this situation is after downloading a torrent. I've seen many people download an entire movie and then panic at the end because they don't know how to play the movie because all they see is a bunch of zip files. This just means that the movie has been zipped (compressed) into multiple files.

An example of how these files look:

Notice the file extensions, seen in the above screenshot.

First, if you don't already have it, you need to download a free program called WinRAR. You can download WinRAR by going to the Downloads section of their website, click here.

After you have downloaded and installed WinRAR, you need to enable the viewing of file extensions - to make things easier. View this tutorial real quick if you don't know how to do so: How to view file extensions.

Now, be sure that all of the zipped files are in the same folder. Next, look for the file that has the .rar extension. This will be the file from which you need to begin the extracting. Open the file, and then click extract at the top:


Pick a location to extract the file(s) to or simply let it extract to the default location provided. Open up the folder where you extracted the contents, and you will see your file(s).

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