how do i extract these babies? I looked around for a rar extractor but winrar, winace, and winzip have to be purchased, and I dont wanna pay for extracting a couple of files, so what do i do to extract these?
I'd use winrar.
You don't HAVE to pay, you'll just get a little nag screen when launching.
I've been using the trial version for a couple of years now :P
I use FilZip (http://www.filzip.com/).
I use winace, and I've never paid a cent. I don't even think I've signed up. It just has a little window pop up saying how many days you've had it,, but no "continue free trial" buttons or anything. I often forget its not liscensed. IMHO you should definatley go Winace.
I sound like a Winace spokesman, don't I? ;D
try www.ultimatezip.com It's free and efficient, and supports ZIP, RAR, ACE, BH, CAB, JAR, LHA (LZH), GZIP, TAR, BZIP2, ARC, ARJ, XXE, UUE formates ;).
I think I've mentioned it before, but I use IZarc , it supports most compression formats and it's free:
http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/izarc.htm