+hayc59 Author MVC Share Posted July 29, 2006 To clarify, you just signup for the newsletter to get a free key? Yes and you will be notified when it hits the website :) Link to post Share on other sites
Shof Share Posted July 29, 2006 Whats the point? free legal program when it is suppose to be legal payed Link to post Share on other sites
Sigurd Share Posted July 29, 2006 I get that ive just never seen a reason to actually buy or it or in this case get a bought program free, ive had the trial way over the 40 days and it still does exactly the same thing as the day i installed Link to post Share on other sites
wynaut Share Posted July 29, 2006 I've been trying to choose between IZARC and 7-zip and now comes this piece of news. :laugh: Signed up for the newsletter and may consider switching over. Thanks for sharing. Link to post Share on other sites
+hayc59 Author MVC Share Posted July 29, 2006 Your very welcome all of you!! :) Link to post Share on other sites
7zipSucks Share Posted July 29, 2006 I have 7zip it has better compression ratios and tbh it works great 7zip does NOT 'work great' it sucks. 1) You can't extract from incomplete split archives - no way to get samples out of split sets. This is a direct rseult of the unix pipe philosophy they use. It makes a single archive then pipes it to split vs. zip/winrar which make multiple archive files with their own headers and crc's. 2) The 'high compression' 700mb archives can take literally HOURS to extract. This is tied to which compression method and which processor extensions your cpu supports. Link to post Share on other sites
bslag.xj Share Posted July 29, 2006 I get that ive just never seen a reason to actually buy or it or in this case get a bought program free, ive had the trial way over the 40 days and it still does exactly the same thing as the day i installed While that may be...if you register it, you will no longer get that nag every time it starts up....so why not sign up for a free license? Link to post Share on other sites
Xerxes Share Posted July 29, 2006 Not bad, thx for the heads up :) I got my free (and legal) copy of DivX Pro in a similar way :happy: Link to post Share on other sites
amrinders87 Share Posted July 29, 2006 While that may be...if you register it, you will no longer get that nag every time it starts up....so why not sign up for a free license? I never open it. Always use the context menu. :D But free is always good. Thanks for the news. Link to post Share on other sites
Neyht Member Share Posted July 29, 2006 (edited) While that may be...if you register it, you will no longer get that nag every time it starts up....so why not sign up for a free license? I can bypass the nag by using the context menu options. I'm probably going to end up getting that product key anyway though. (ahh...someone beat me to it.) Other things I found out about the program on my computer: WinRar opens faster if you select the last rar file in a multi file archive. (Make a large split archive of about 50 rar files.) WinRar freezes the explorer window of the location you are extracting files to until the extraction process is complete. I found a work around for this. I'm assuming that this behavior is either tied to the trail version or it only occurs on my computer, since they haven't fixed it in any versions since I don't remember when. Edited July 29, 2006 by Ned Link to post Share on other sites
ozgeek Share Posted July 29, 2006 7zip does NOT 'work great' it sucks. 1) You can't extract from incomplete split archives - no way to get samples out of split sets. This is a direct rseult of the unix pipe philosophy they use. It makes a single archive then pipes it to split vs. zip/winrar which make multiple archive files with their own headers and crc's. 2) The 'high compression' 700mb archives can take literally HOURS to extract. This is tied to which compression method and which processor extensions your cpu supports. Who the hell make multiple archieves when they can just make ONE .rar file? 7zip and Tugzip really is excellent. I now use Tugzip. Does the job very well and is always free. no need to pay a penny at any time. And it can extract rar files. I tried and it works here. Link to post Share on other sites
gadean Share Posted July 29, 2006 This is great news. I've been using this for years. :D Link to post Share on other sites
f45 Share Posted July 29, 2006 Wonderful news!! :cool: WinRar is the best. Thanks a lot. Link to post Share on other sites
AndyMutz Share Posted July 29, 2006 Who the hell make multiple archieves when they can just make ONE .rar file? everyone who transfers very large archives over the net and doesn't have a 10/100/1000 mbit connection.. that would include me. once you transfer a large archive in one piece and get a crc failed error on the other side, you will know why. oh, and thanks for the news :) -andy- Link to post Share on other sites
macstorm Share Posted July 29, 2006 I already have this version ;) .....cool news anyway :yes: Link to post Share on other sites
+John. Subscriber¹ Share Posted July 29, 2006 Not bad, thx for the heads up :) I got my free (and legal) copy of DivX Pro in a similar way :happy: Same :) Love WinRar, use it daily. Link to post Share on other sites
didaio Share Posted July 29, 2006 Took me awhile to find it also :whistle: http://www.win-rar.com/newsletter.html I can't sign-up to Newsletter. Recieve this error: Warning: mysql_pconnect() [function.mysql-pconnect]: #08004Too many connections in /opt/www/wwwroot/www.win-rar.com/html/t3lib/class.t3lib_db.php on line 813 Database Error The current username, password or host was not accepted when the connection to the database was attempted to be established! Link to post Share on other sites
starjuice Share Posted July 29, 2006 :D I like WinRAR so much! Thanks you!! I can't wait to download the newer version of WinRAR!! Link to post Share on other sites
Angel Blue01 Share Posted July 29, 2006 I dont like WinRar very much. But this is good news :-) Link to post Share on other sites
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