Windows Explorer, the native file manager in Windows, can extract data from ZIP files but it does not open RARs. You need a third-party application to extract the contents of a RAR file.

At the top, you will find three main options—Add, Convert, and Extract. Selecting the Add option allows you to archive files, ...

Windows 11 should soon be faster at extracting files from compressed ZIPs – and it’s about time, frankly sudo port install unrar ...

Occasionally, you'll need to open several compressed files from one ZIP folder. While Windows does a fine job extracting, there are better tools to unzip.