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 ...

While downloading software applications for your business, you may encounter files that you cannot open. Some software developers and publishers use the RAR compression format to package large files ...

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.