However, because WinRAR 3.51 won the Best Overall Utility from the SIAF People's Choice Award (major award in the shareware business), they decided to have a one day free-for-all promotion. Thing was you had to register your email address for their newsletter, receive a key in your mail and register it.
Now that Sunday passed, and the promotion expired. However this doesn't mean that you cannot still register it legally. Thing is that they sent the same key to all 40,000 users that benefited from the promotion, and now that key is available for download from Simtel (one of WinRAR's partners in this).
Leaving the blurb aside, this is what you have to do to register it:
- Go to Simtel's download page, choose a server and download the key: WinRAR Free Key 3.51
- Now go to WinRAR's official site and download version 3.51: http://www.win-rar.com/download.html
Note that you don't have to download the latest version, instead scroll down until you see the WinRAR 3.51 setup and download it.
[Update]3.51 is no longer there, instead use version 3.5 from this site Old Version - Install WinRAR 3.51, go to where you downloaded the key (rarkey.rar) and unpack it. You'll get a rarreg.key that you'll have to copy in Program Files-WinRAR (the installation folder for WinRAR). After that you should see Registered to "PCA Special Offer"
That's it, enjoy you free WinRAR license.
16 comments:
Thanks a lot for license of winRAR. But update yr link to winRAR 3.51
It's showing the latest page, where u cant find winRAR 3.51
Thanks.
This process still works, as of 20 May 2007. It was a great way for a totally free version of Winrar. I've only needed to open a rar file less than a dozen times since the mid-80's, and had to always download a shareware version for a one-time use, which caused me to avoid rar file downloads like ebola. It's about time that someone publishes a way to get a free, maybe a little antiquated, copy of software that they really don't want to buy, because they never will get their money's worth. Thanx!
AVG Antivirus flagged the rarkey.rar with a hidden extension of .exe & quarantined it to the virus vault. :o(
It's a false positive, the rarkey.rar it's not a virus so you might need to ignore that warning from AVG
hey a little help here, , pls, , my browser seems to have difficulties connecting to the license site or the simtel that you have mentioned, , is there any alternative for these? thnx pls reply asap. . i badly needed this software and how unfortunate this difficulty to me. . T_T
hi, my virusprogram keeps warning me about a hidden extention, is it save to pen the exe file?
Ok, is kipped the avg warning, but when i try to extract, it says "nothing to extract, no archives found
You can still download winrar 3.51 from rarlab at the ftp server:
ftp://ftp.rarlab.com/rar/wrar351.exe
I tried to use version 3.5 but the key wouldn't work!
If it wasn't for the person who said:
'You can still download winrar 3.51 from rarlab at the ftp server:
ftp://ftp.rarlab.com/rar/wrar351.exe'
I'd still be climbing the walls.
Thanks for that.
Long live freeware!
try FileHippo.com
tht didn't help me at all the key has gone
can anyone plz update the key!!
Copy all the info below the line to a text file names rarreg.key dont add or subtract anything
------------------------------------------
RAR registration data
PCA Special Offer
Version: 3.51
UID=1646b0bf276e0741a35d
6412212250a35de40c0f65f0de0b1ec394651547dd886d12c4b273
314b58181fcd2e99e818605ed576bd5c0b10a8740d2f11c59f87b3
8e75c09eba7f7fb395c7d1ac80abf2030c873788fad37f614109c6
0442fb933697af5e46876631c75812072460411d34d0918118ff8a
335fc8bb64cc46b907d19a6ced2ce9ff90a0c417b6c3f12379447a
30dd1c68cf9aa89877227b946f55e1b61411656f387b498160fd03
65a1c527d7f9899d013980b9fe11ef23d35df5224a293546221894
Thanks!! :clap: it worked.
i cant find the key please help me if any one having the key post it to this page
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