There are numerous tools that can extract RAR file format on Microsoft Windows. These tools provide the same core functionality to extract and allow you to explore more options for RAR files. In this ...
What you are describing is most certainly not the default behavior of winrar. When you use winrar and give it a path it will write directly to that location. This is easily verified with filemon.
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