Convert exe to rar

Conversion of exe file format to rar file format ^beta

Search for exe to rar converter or software able to handle these file types.

Convert Self-extracting compressed file archive to WinRAR RAR compressed archive.

We have found 2 software records in our database eligible for .exe to .rar file format conversion.

If you want to repack a self-extracting archive to common RAR archive, which exe to rar conversion typically represents, simply decompress the EXE file and repack it in standard RAR file. Renaming won't work, although WinRAR can access archives regardless of the file suffix, provided that the files are indeed compressed archives.

However, when you do that you will require a RAR compatible program to extract the content again. Nowadays, this should be possible in almost any file manager with RAR support, but its likely that no special exe to rar converter was made just for this purpose.

Microsoft Windows software - convert exe to rar on Windows

WinRAR

One of the oldest and most popular shareware file archiver and data compression utility

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
Convert from exe file	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
to rar file	Yes, WinRAR supports rar file conversion as a target file type.	Yes	Yes	rar editor	Yes	No	No	Yes

The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned exe to rar. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.

7-zip

Popular open source file archiver with a high compression ratio

File extension	Convert	Open	Save	Edit	Create	Import	Export	Extract
exe	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
rar	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes

Additional links: Open exe file, Open rar file

EXE

Files with exe extension can also be found as special self-extracting compress archives. They are basically archives with a small executable program added so the end-user does not require any software to decompress it. Can be password protected.

RAR

Files with rar extension are compressed archives using RAR or WinRAR compression utilities. Along with the ZIP format, the RAR format is one of the most common formats used and can be extracted by almost every archiving tool.

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