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 ...

WinRAR has been around for decades, and for a long time it felt untouchable. It was the tool everyone used, the one that lived on almost every Windows PC. Then came 7-Zip. It was faster, open-source, ...

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.