7-Zip makes great Self-Extracting files in Ultra though, ie if you want to send something large a self extracting .exe is virtually always smaller than a .RAR.
Of course 7-Zip only has 2 threads, whereas WinRAR has 4, which is why i use it more.
I use total commander for the simplest-doitquick jobs (and it has integrated support for Winrar so all I see is the Winrar extracting window) and 7-zip for compressing and when I feel like it for uncompressing.
Can you unzip a file just by thinking of it? I am just curious to the "easiest way" since I use old winzip and/or WinRAR, or even just Windows XP to right click and select 'extract to...' How can it be easier than right clicking and selecting from the popup box? The only way would be to think 'extract to..' when you look at a file