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winRAR lets you continue to use it even after the 40 day trial has ended because that's the best way for them to make money. If winRAR really only had a 40-day trial, and you had to buy the program after that 40-day trial, less people would use winRAR and therefore it wouldn't be as well-known, therefore less people would use it and less people ...
It works out for WinRAR because there's a tremendous amount of brand awareness, even in the face of free alternatives, because it is so lightweight and functional and "basically free". They want users to carry this knowledge with them when those users become office managers or IT directors making large purchasing decisions.
He has read an article from 2007 and RECENTLY bought WinRar ;-; Nowadays: 2022 7z format > 2022 rar format Furthermore: 7zip - free and open source WinRar - paid and proprietary I don't understand this, but as they say: "different strokes for different folks". P.S. One major point for WinRar though, it has way better SFX creator.
So I am a little confused on this, which website is the official one, YT says that win-rar is the official one where as Google says rarlab is the official one, I want to download Winrar from the official website because I fear that the others are fake and will give me a virus. I do not know if both of them are official or not.
The newest 7-Zip and PeaZip can work on Windows 2000 and above, but WinRar and WinZip require at least Windows 7. As for history: WZip originates from 1991, WRar from 1995, 7Z from 1999, PeaZ from 2006! As for memory: while these programs were open on idle, as seen here, their RAM usages were: 7-Zip: 1.4 MB WinRAR: 4.5 MB PeaZip: 20.1 MB
this is fine for images, you take a high quality large image, reduce the quality slightly and reduce the size immensely, so you are ineffect changing the contents of the file. with winrar, you need to get back to the original, or it defeats the purpose of it. files used by humans like images/audio/video are fine with lossly compression.
Yeah, winrar and 7zip are mostly only used to zip and unzip files. I know 7zip can also encode zipped files and really massively compress some files, not so sure about winrar though. Reply reply
Rar and later Winrar had several features that made it mucho popular in the early days of the internet and file sharing. For example, when sharing binary data (i.e. pictures, movies) over newsgroups or floppy disks (remember, there was a time before CDs) you frequently would have to "chunk" your data up into numerous ~1-1.4 MB chunks.
I've seen a few people mock use of pirated/cracked WinRAR. Is this because the trial version can be used indefinitely / just re-installed, or something else? Curious because I was using a cracked 6.22 but figured I should update due to the recent vulnerability.
7zip offers better compression, hands down. WinRar allows you to work from "within the archive" without having to extract it, so if you want to run a portable program or installer you don't have to pull it apart to make it run. It also has the more colorful, "user-friendly" UI. Don't underestimate that as a factor for the casuals.