decoding files for beginner!

I know this is probably beneath most users on here, but i'm just finding my feet. How do i decode a RAR file i have downloaded (or more simply - what do i have to do to play the bloody thing on window media or similar?).
Please help before i burst!

You have to extract it with winrar

and that can be found here http://www.rarsoft.com/

http://www.win-rar.com/download.html

if you read this topic you will be an expert in no time

MMs how to on Posting and Viewing Vids. 11/30/05

https://www.forumophilia.com/topic8025.html

jamesking wrote:


it seems S D has beat me to the post. so as i was only going to offer the same advice. Im sure you will find what your looking for. But may I also mention HJ-split which you may need for joining some files and is available from http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/ as you may find files that are avi.001, avi.002 etc