Need a Quicker Way to Unarchive...

Hello All:
I have some .tar.gz archives on DvD's that are made for backup. I went to go and open one today and it took forever to unarchive the file.
Is there a way to just look at the contents of this file or is there a quicker way to unarchive?
Thanks for any help or advice on this,
Paul

I was talking about the plug-in, but started from the program page and thought it worked the same, just more features. I guess that part was right

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