Is WINRAR a reliable and safe program to use on Windows XP?
I have used winrar for years on many different versions of windows and found it a very reliable program. Theres definately no virus or spyware in it. Download it here....http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm Only downside to it is the nag screen when u open an archive in the free version. If you download .rar files from dodgy sources remember to scan them before u open em.
What happens if i don't purchase a winrar. license?
The software Nazis will show up at your house in the middle of the night and haul you off to a detention camp, where you spend the rest of your life in hard labor. LOL. You should pay the price for the license. It is not that expensive, and it encourages the creators to continue updating WinRAR and develop other software programs. Not to pay them, and to continue to use the program, is stealing from them. Having said that, I have an unregistered copy on one of my computers that I have probably been using a couple years. (I have a registered copy on my main computer, I just have not convinced myself to pay for it a second time to use on my server, where I might actually use it once every 3 to 4 months). It still works, and nobody has sued me or sent the Nazis. So I predict that nothing would happen to you if you continue to use the program. But it is not really fair to the people who spend the time and effort to create the program not to pay them for it.
Why don't you buy WinRAR?
I did! But only after many, MANY, years of using it without playing for it. Eventually one day I saw it on “sale”, figured I'd waste that same about on something else anyway, and why not? That's the minor reason.The major reason is, because I started to fix computers for people, and getting paid for it. I knew I had to make myself look very knowledgeable and technical, not to mention legitimate. I have to show that I'm different from them. Or else why would come to me for help in the first place?What kind of “professional” would I be if I had used the expired free trial of WinRAR? You what looks more professional!? When it clearly says Professional Edition on the version of WinRAR and CCleaner they see me using. The less tech savvy the random client is, the more appealing the little title is.So yeah, I really don't like working on people's computers, especially when some (usually ALL) of them keep going to the same bogus pron site and catch a virus, or some random backwater website to download porn, or they click on something, and it tells them to install something, and they're computer gets totally corrupted.So yeah, I'm okay with paying for stuff even when I don't necessarily hve to. Especially when I can get it for cheap. Some day, if I ever become a developer, and make some people actually use or play, I'll have to deal with cheapskates not paying for my stuff, or flat out stealing it and putting their name on it! Eventually!
How does WinRar make money if we can use it after the trial is over?
You know that 40 day reminder? Its an annoyance for you, but a threat to companies.Winrar may be used a lot less nowadays, but it still commands an impressive following in the millions. Most of these are average Joes who use it every three or four days to open a compressed bootleg download of Shaolin Soccer. Winrar doesn’t mind these people, profit from them would be sparse and difficult to make, and they spread word through word of mouth anyway.But for mega-billion dollar companies, who use Winrar to convert million-dollar presentations and deals, to compress files, to distribute content, Winrar Paid is a must. Imagine the embarrassment when some guy pitching an idea to investors with millions to invest reveals that he is too cheap to pay for a $29.99 program, or when a news reports leaks that a company can’t afford to buy this software to compress their own files. And it is very, very easy to sue a company who uses your software without paying after the deadline when the deadline literally blares at their faces every time they open it.Winrar doesn’t make money from people, it makes it from companies.
How many people have paid for WinRAR?
I'm at least one and I have also purchased a 40 user commercial use license for use where I work.It's an order of magnitude the fastest archiver out there, without compromising compression efficiency.Compare it with bloat/crap-ware WinZip, well, no comparison.7zip of course is its most significant competitor, but in terms of speed there's absolutely no comparison.We need the speed that WinRAR provides, with 30+ PCs generating ~60,000 30KB to 50KB files daily, I need something that can reliably and quickly take these away from the file system.***EDIT***Hmmm, in trying to build an objective comparison of our workload for WinRAR vs 7zip, well, I can only say all of the above is not as clear cut as it once was.7zip has pretty much caught up with WinRAR in every test.Typical workload looks like this:Average file size 41KB then.WinRAR (v5.3) = 70 seconds / ratio 12%7zip (v15.05) = 116 seconds / ratio 2%2%!!!OK, storage space is cheap. Time is money and when I add this up across all PCs every day, WinRAR will be the choice as we need the task to complete as quickly as possible.But look at that compression ratio. Seriously impressive.(decompression times not an issue, these files go into cold archive)
I need help with winrar and poweriso PLEASE!?
Hey guys, I am a huge noob when it comes to things like WinRAR and PowerISO... So today I decided to try downloading a game from a website and it has four parts. I've downloaded all of them and they're all of WinRAR but I don't know what to do next? I'm trying to put it on a virtual disc thingy so that I don't need a CD for it. But I have the files on winrar, and I don't know what to do next.. Do I extract them again? When I did for part 1 I got a bunch of files that said stuff like "data-a.bin"(data b and c too), "setup.exe","support","directx", etc. Is that for the whole game? There were four parts so i assumed that i needed to download them all, but i don't know.. can you guys help with with this?
Why isn't there a WinRAR version for Mac?
Well, first WinRAR is a paid software developed for Windows.unrar is a free tool so folks didn’t mind typing in 5 letters in a terminal window instead of paying for something just to uncompress an archive.Anyway, a quick look at the App Store gives you tons of alternatives (free and excellent) for the same purpose.Personally I recommend:The Archive Browser (great to navigate inside compressed files)The Unarchiver (from the devs of archive browser, it’s the tool I mostly use except for .zip/.dmg)Keka (its an amazing app as well, and it performs brilliantly with parted archives).macOS built-in tool for compressed archives also works straight forward with most archive files that I can remember going through.Anyway, no point in making a paid tool that few would pay for when you can get excellent for free.
I went to http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm to download winrar but i'm confused... Please help?
what is your OS system? Indeed they are trials but you can use them forever. http://rarlabs.com/rar/rarosx-3.7.0.1.tar.gz - if you use mac http://rarlabs.com/rar/wrar370.exe - if you use windows
How do i unrar a file i had just downloaded? i just downloaded the sims 2 seasons game and can't really unrar
Yeah winrar should do it, but if it doesnt, get winzip. You will probably need a cd emulator like daemon tools to actually instal it as well. Hope this helps