Feb052011

How can I get a free version of WinRAR?

Robb Thurston asks:

I want a full WinRAR relevant to 2011. Please tell me how to get a freeware WinRAR preset to work immediately upon download and without time limitations. Thanks a lot!


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  • Mike February 6, 2011

    Probably the only way to get it without paying is pirating. For obvious reasons I can’t give you details on that.

    I suggest to use one of the alternatives to WinRAR e.g. 7zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) or IZArc (http://www.izarc.org/)

    • Aibek February 6, 2011

      I suggest using free alternatives recommended above as well. They
      support much more archive formats and let you open a lot more archive
      files in addition to .rar ones.

  • Anonymous February 6, 2011

    Some more alternatives
    Jzip
    http://www.jzip.com/
    jZip is a powerful and reliable compression utility based on 7-Zip archiving technology. It can Create, open and extract Zip, TAR, GZip and 7-Zip. Open and extract from RAR and ISO.

    KGB Archiver
    KGB Archiver is the compression tool with an unbelievably high compression rate. Unfortunately, in spite of its powerful compression rate, it has high hardware requirements (I recommend processor with 1,5GHz clock and 256MB of RAM as an essential minimum). One of the advantages of KGB Archiver is also AES-256 encryption which is used to encrypt the archives. This is one of the strongest encryptions known for man.
    http://kgbarchiver.net/

    PeaZip
    http://www.peazip.org/index.html

    PeaZip is available as portable and installable software for 32 and 64 bit Windows and Linux. It can create and extract multiple archives at once, create self-extracting archives. It has secure deletion feature, can verify file checksum and hash, and supports multiple strong encryption standards.

    Tugzip
    http://www.tugzip.com/Home.html

    TUGZip is a powerful freeware archiving utility for Windows that provides support for a wide range of compressed, encoded and disc-image files. Encrypt archives using 6 different algorithms. Blowfish (128-bit), DES (56-bit), Triple DES (168-bit) and Rijndael (128-bit, 192-bit and 256-bit).
    It can extract multiple archives at once and Repair corrupted ZIP and SQX archives.

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