Free WinRar license

Totoriko

Found this on another forum. It's a free license for Winrar 3.51.

WinRAR recently was voted as the best overall utility in the Shareware Industry Awards Foundation People's Choice Award. To celebrate that fact they're going to be giving away the full single user non-upgradable version of WinRAR 3.51 this Sunday July 30th from 00:00 to 24:00 CET.

http://www.win-rar.com/bestoverallutility
or
https://www.win-rar.com/bestoverallutility (Thanks for martinmarv for this link)

The site is getting hammered at the moment, keep refreshing the page until you get through, or try later during the day

rdwarr

Thanks - I've always found that WinRAR far outperforms the more popular WinZip. Hopefully this will see more people using it and cut down the size of Email attachments etc.

talkshop

Link does not work

Whirly

It's not the link - the site is overwhelmed.

ukbill69

Site/server is down. To many people going to there site. More than likely the bandwidth provider of the server has banned there connection, untill they contact them. Ive had this before.

Poppycat

Also mentioned here in freebies forum the other day

davilown

what does winrar do?

:beer: monster

even_steven

It's a file compression utility, like WinZip, but allegedly with a better compression algorithm that makes compressed files slightly smaller. I've used it for ages and would recommend it if you can get a genuine licence for free.

As an alternative, check out 7Zip (http://www.7-zip.org/). It can unpack .zip and .rar files, and compresses in it's own .7z format, which is also supposedly more efficient than standard .zip files. Best of all, it's permanently free to use.

davilown

even_steven wrote:

It's a file compression utility, like WinZip, but allegedly with a better compression algorithm that makes compressed files slightly smaller. I've used it for ages and would recommend it if you can get a genuine licence for free.

As an alternative, check out 7Zip (http://www.7-zip.org/). It can unpack .zip and .rar files, and compresses in it's own .7z format, which is also supposedly more efficient than standard .zip files. Best of all, it's permanently free to use.

Thanks for that - I need to know what something is before I use it - well most of the time anyway!

:beer: monster

Poppycat

I been using it for about 7-8 years now, it is a very good compression program and often better than winzip, however that said, bare in mind that the latest build is V3.60 beta 8, the problem with it is that it is known to not always be backward compatable with latest rars that are compressed with with last build. I had this problem only the other week so upgraded to the latest build 3.60 from 3.50 this has happened before with other builds too.

Tallyho_2

Got the e-mail but can't log onto the download site :rolleyes: