Winrar free this Sunday

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I should add that the emailed link with the inserted ID number for the
referenced downloadable zipped txt file was at 3401...
 
It was pretty slow but I just managed to download the key at 3 pm.
Then I tried to go to the web site to download the program and noticed
the whole site went down.
 
I saw that message at about 11:00 pm (-5:00 GMT) yesterday: the 29th.
Yet, later (before midnight), although almost timing out, got
through...
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Yeah, and the offer was for Sunday the 28 of July... <grin>
 
In_Parentheses said:
BTW:
Did anyone noticed the offer was for "Sunday, July *28* 2006
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_I_ saw:

"In order to thank everyone who voted for us and made it possible for
us to win this prestigious award, we are offering the WinRAR 3.51
single user license non upgradeable version this Sunday the 30th of
July 2006 from 00:00 until 24:00 CET for absolutely FREE."

Chris Bantock
 
In_Parentheses said:
What "revenge"? If they don't wanna give it, then they may keep it... BTW:
Did anyone noticed the offer was for "Sunday, July *28* 2006... now look at
your calendar... it was July 30 all day! :-)


No, thank you very much!
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FWIW, the "campaign is over" per the www.win-rar.com/bestoverallutility
site.

<quote>
The campaign is over!

Thank you for voting for WinRAR for the SIAF People's Choice Award!

If you couldn't download your free WinRAR key or haven't received the
instructions e-mail yet, don't worry! All registered users will receive
their key.
<quote>

I was able to get through to the site yesterday (29th) but opted not to
submit the form. There was a check box at the bottom of the form that
was grayed out giving permission to receive who knows what.
 
Chris Dubea said:
Can you please tell me how you used the key? I've installed v3.60 and
have looked around a bit, but there is no obvious way of using the
key.
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extract the *.key file into the folder where your winrar is installed.
start winrar then check the about box
 
You've been fooled. ;) After I submitted the info, the key came
from win.RAR GmbH (the official publisher for RARLAB products) and
works with with the WinRAR 3.51 I just downloaded from
<http://www.rarlab.com/>.
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Can you please tell me how you used the key? I've installed v3.60 and
have looked around a bit, but there is no obvious way of using the
key.

Thanks,
===========================================================================
Chris
 
Can you please tell me how you used the key? I've installed v3.60
and have looked around a bit, but there is no obvious way of using
the key.
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It's a key for 3.51, not 3.60. Using WinRAR 3.51 to open the .rar file
which contains the key will register WinRAR.
 
Maybe it's nothing more than some marketing trick?
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I think they didn't expect that load on their servers, and it couldn't
cope with the traffic.

In Germany, we call the causing of server overload "heisen", as a
referral to a computer tech magazine publisher, which is running a
forum; and some people there had once the idea to use this effect, to
bring the servers of some spammers to their knees, with endless wget
queries.

In this case, the effect was probably unintended and not part of a
marketing trick.


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
 
I did finally download the shareware version of the program. For those
of you that got the key, you have to install the shareware 3.51 version
of the program first. The key is a RAR file that has to be unzipped
and results in a single file. Then you add this file to the WinRAR
folder in "program files". Then the 40 day trialware becomes
registered and removes the trialware notice when you open "About" on
the Help option.
 
George skrev:
The key is a RAR file that has to be unzipped
and results in a single file. Then you add this file to the WinRAR
folder in "program files".
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Not necessary. Simply open the .rar with WinRAR, and you're set. No need
to manually copy anything anywhere.
 
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It's a key for 3.51, not 3.60. Using WinRAR 3.51 to open the .rar file
which contains the key will register WinRAR.
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Thanks to you and ceg. I appreciate it.
===========================================================================
Chris
 
Gabriele said:
I think they didn't expect that load on their servers, and it couldn't
cope with the traffic.

In Germany, we call the causing of server overload "heisen", as a
referral to a computer tech magazine publisher, which is running a
forum; and some people there had once the idea to use this effect, to
bring the servers of some spammers to their knees, with endless wget
queries.

In this case, the effect was probably unintended and not part of a
marketing trick.


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
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Any chance of e-mailing the key to me
 
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