That unlicensed copy of Winrar

[George]

I know I did it the hard way but it is done not and it works.

 

[Ron May]

I know I did it the hard way but it is done not and it works.

For me, this whole exercise was "the hard way." Eventually I got not
one but FOUR keys (all the same) and it's working now. In retrospect,
it probably wasn't worth the trouble and effort since ICEOWS is doing
everything I need and WinRar will just be a backup for me, but
sometimes a task burgeons into a QUEST that cannot be abandoned. <g>

 

[George]

I have to agree. The copy of WinRAR that we got cannot be updated, so
we will probably end up having to convert to something else in maybe a
year. TugZip has some appeal to me. I may convert to it anyway.

George

 

[Laminar Flow]

Why be concerned about updates?
My 3-year-old version of Winrar is still superb.
No worries here.

 

[George]

The donationcoder folks named WinRAR the best archiver. I may stick
with it. I have been using the last freeware version of Power Archiver
but I needed to be able to open RAR files so I installed ZipGenious.
To my way of thinking, ZipGenious tries to do too much, with FTP etc.
WinRAR looks simpler.

 

[Gene H. Chan]

I have been using the last freeware version of Power Archiver
but I needed to be able to open RAR files...

I, too, use an old freeware Power Archiver (version 6.11.0) as my default
zip/compression/decompression utility, but I found that it sometimes failed
to handle .rar files successfully. That's the reason I have WinRAR at all.

 

[Al Smith]

I have been using the last freeware version of Power Archiver

I, too, use an old freeware Power Archiver (version 6.11.0) as my default
zip/compression/decompression utility, but I found that it sometimes failed
to handle .rar files successfully. That's the reason I have WinRAR at all.

I find 7-Zip works very well. I used to use Power Archiver way
back in the day, but the free version is too old. We have to move
with the times.