Winrar free Sunday 30th

loltim · 30 Jul 2006 at 14:49

WinRAR Voted Overall Best Utility for SIAF People's Choice Award

The people have spoken and voted WinRAR as Best Overall Utility. Each year the
Shareware Industry Awards Foundation (SIAF) asks computer users from all over
to vote for their favorite software.

Thanks for all your support and for voting for WinRAR. It was a great honor for
us to receive such an award.

To Say Thanks and to Celebrate: Get the Winner WinRAR 3.51 for FREE on Sunday
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. Please click the following link which will become
active on Sunday. Fill out the form on that page in order to receive further
information via e-mail about how to get your FREE version of WinRAR.

http://www.win-rar.com/bestoverallutility/

The site is understandably a tad busy at the minute, be patient.

Borden · 30 Jul 2006 at 15:02

Thanks for the headsup

What does the pro version offer over the free one? At least now i don't have to put up with that annoying popup every time i open up WinRAR.

EDIT: Gonna wait a bit before signing up, the server's getting hammered it seems.

Greenlizard0 · 30 Jul 2006 at 15:54

Wow thanks for the headsup. I love winrar I find it much more powerful than winzip.

Sirrel Squirrel · 30 Jul 2006 at 16:13

I'll download it just to get rid of the annoying 'buy me' thing that always pops up

TomaHawk · 30 Jul 2006 at 16:14

Managed to get mine, thanks.

Took quite a few refreshes and a lot of patience as the page takes like 5 + mins to load!

Greenlizard0 · 30 Jul 2006 at 16:17

Do you have to register or anything? Is it possible to msn me with the file if it's a simple free download please?

loltim · 30 Jul 2006 at 16:21

Sirrel Squirrel said:
I'll download it just to get rid of the annoying 'buy me' thing that always pops up

The only reason I want it, still havn't managed to access the site though.

greenlizard0 said:
Do you have to register or anything? Is it possible to msn me with the file if it's a simple free download please?

Pretty sure a unique key code is emailed to you.

Borden · 30 Jul 2006 at 16:37

Tim said:
The only reason I want it, still havn't managed to access the site though.

Same here.

Every time i try the link the page just times out.

Greenlizard0 · 30 Jul 2006 at 16:43

Tim said:
The only reason I want it, still havn't managed to access the site though.

Pretty sure a unique key code is emailed to you.

aye it is. I've got it now, uninstalled the old version and now I can't open the new one for the key...d'oh...

Greenlizard0 · 30 Jul 2006 at 16:52

call me stupid or something, but I can't seem to get it to open/work? :confused:

What do you have to do to get it working? The email doesn't really help..

edit - Thanks for your help I'm just being a tool today..

Westyfield2 · 30 Jul 2006 at 16:55

greenlizard0 said:
call me stupid or something, but I can't seem to get it to open/work? What do you have to do to get it working? The email doesn't really help..

It's a license key for WinRAR 3.51 which you need to download to open/use the key.
http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar351.exe
*Me thinks*

EDIT: Now I've actually done it; Email linked you to a download which is a small reg key.You need to install WinRAR 3.51 and use this to 'open' the key file (it's a .rar). This then activates your copy of WinRAR from free to Pro.

P_A_N_I_C · 30 Jul 2006 at 18:01

n1 Tim