{"id":2899,"date":"2013-08-01T09:09:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T09:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2013-08-01T09:12:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T09:12:54","slug":"how-to-decompress-a-zip-rar-file-with-7-zip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/how-to-decompress-a-zip-rar-file-with-7-zip\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Decompress A ZIP\/RAR File with 7-Zip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Compressed files take up less storage space and can be transferred to other computers more quickly than uncompressed files. In this article we&#8217;ll show you how to decompress a .zip or .rar file with 7-Zip program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Decompress A ZIP\/RAR File with 7-Zip?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here we&#8217;ll use the PCUnlocker program for demonstration purpose. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/reset-windows-password.html\">PCUnlocker<\/a> is the most popular Windows password recovery software, which comes as a bootable ISO image file and it is distributed as a .zip format. Now we&#8217;re going to decompress the PCUnlockerStd.zip file, which is the download file of PCUnlocker Standard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step #1:<\/strong> Go to the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.7-zip.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.7-zip.org\/<\/a> and click on the Download link. Wait for the screen to load and click on Save File. Once downloaded, double-click on the file and follow the instructions to install it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step #2:<\/strong>Now simply right-click the PCUnlockerStd.zip file. Go to <strong>7-Zip<\/strong> and select <strong>Extract files <\/strong>from the context menu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2900\" alt=\"7zip\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/7zip.png\" width=\"541\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step #3:<\/strong>In the Extract dialog box, you can specify where you would like to extract the given files to. Click OK.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2901\" alt=\"7zip-extract\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/7zip-extract.png\" width=\"460\" height=\"272\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step #4:<\/strong>The files will be extracted into a new folder that contains all the content.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2902\" alt=\"extracted-files\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/extracted-files.png\" width=\"621\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compressed files take up less storage space and can be transferred to other computers more quickly than uncompressed files. In this article we&#8217;ll show you how to decompress a .zip or .rar file with 7-Zip program. How to Decompress A ZIP\/RAR File with 7-Zip? Here we&#8217;ll use the PCUnlocker program for demonstration purpose. PCUnlocker is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1,10],"tags":[1482,1481],"class_list":["post-2899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-software","category-others","category-tips-tricks","tag-decompress-rar-file-with-7-zip","tag-decompress-zip-file-with-7-zip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2907,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/2907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}