How to remove password protection from compressed files

Posted by Mehper C. Palavuzlar on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Mehper C. Palavuzlar
Published on 2010-03-03T11:59:10Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 15:38 UTC
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This has always been a problem for me for a long time. Let's see if any SuperUser can solve this:

I have a directory in which there are lots of password protected .RAR files of which I know the passwords. I want to remove the password protection from all of them without extracting the contents. Since each file is larger than 1 GB, decompressing & then recompressing without password encryption is not a good option for me. How can I easily do that? I'm using WinRAR 3.80 on Win7. Any other 3rd party tools are welcomed.

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