When trying to install or update any application such as the .NET Framework, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable, and more, you may encounter a ...

If your storage drive is always running out of space and you're not sure what's eating it up, check your temporary files. They can balloon into massive storage hogs ...

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.