Looking for preview handler for .rar files?

[jakobkraft]

I'm running Vista Ultimte, 32-bit, and thanks to the MSDN Preview Pack I've got preview handlers for just about every type of file I need including .zip files. Unfortunately, the .zip preview handler does not work for .rar files, and I've looked everywhere for them but haven't found any.

Does anyone know of where I can snag a preview handler for .rar files? Maybe a program that reads .rar files and installs it automatically - which the latest version of WinRAR does not do, sadly...

Any help would be greatly appreciated -- thanks in advance!

 

[CuriousMike]

7-Zip ?

 

[bsobel]

Link to preview pack?

 

[Rhonda the Sly]

7-zip doesn't install any preview handlers that I know. I know my PC can't preview .RAR, .7z, or .ZIP files as it is. 7-zip does have a nice file manager that will quickly open to preview packaged contents of any of the already mentioned archive types.

Going to find that handler pack now, good times. 😛 They should have offered these things over Windows Update...

 

[jakobkraft]

Originally posted by: bsobel
Link to preview pack?

You can snag them here:

http://kurtsh.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!DA410C7F7E038D!1739.entry?wa=wsignin1.0&sa=527771522


Follow the instructions closely, I remember it gets tricky at some point during the installation. I think I solved the issue by just turning UAC off completely while installing.
Good luck🙂