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Unlock Protected WinRAR Achive Files With WinRAR Unlock

By on December 2, 2008

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WinRAR has been my favorite file compression and archiving software. It has a feature that enables archive creators to lock RAR and SFX executable archive files. When the archive file is locked, the file can’t be modified and is protected from any content changes.

However, WinRAR locking algorithm is not foolproof. If you would like to freely modify the content of the locked archive files, there is exactly a way to unlock the protected WinRAR archive files. WinRAR Unlock is a lightweight Windows utility that allows you to easily unlock the protected WinRAR archive files including SFX executable files, just by patching a few bytes.

This utility is portable and requires no installation on your computer. To use WinRAR Unlock, launch the application from the downloaded zip file and browse for the protected archive file that you wish to unlock. Click the “Start” button to unlock WinRAR archive files. That’s all.

Since this tool is portable, you can bring it together with you in your pendrive.

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Steve Yu is a technology blogger with five years blogging experience (since 2007). He is the founder of MyTechQuest.com.

  • http://SaleSg.blogspot.com SaleSg

    This is cool. I got a few protected ZIP file that I forget the password. I will download this and try if it really works.

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  • http://www.mytechquest.com Steve Yu

    SaleSg > Well, this nifty utility is used to unlock protected WinRAR archives , and not password-protected archive files.

  • http://nspeaks.com Navjot Singh

    This didn’t work. It ultimately corrupted the newly changed file. This tool needs to be updated for latest version created rar files.

  • mutu26

    There is not bad application which works with rar files-object fix rar,it helped me many times,also it is free,program effective RAR fix tools,that may retrieve all needed documents even from corrupted archives of RAR format,scans corrupted RAR files and compares its original and current CRC values,program can easily restore RAR and SFX archives as well as multi-volume archives,compatible with Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista.

  • tony

    I currently use RAR Password Recovery 5.0, which can recover lost or forgotten passwords of Zip-archives created using WinRAR, RAR or any other RAR-compatible software.
    http://www.recoverlostpassword.com/products/rarpasswordrecovery.html

  • Recover RAR Password

    RAR Password Recovery 5.0 works great for me.