Does it count for 2.0 if you "found" the key online?

I was born in 94' my first clear memory and first foreign name I can remember is IGOR PAVLOV 😂

What's with all the 420 references in this video?

6:44 Midtown Madness!

One superpower WinRAR has that 7zip doesn't: On the fly encoding selection. Very useful if you often get files from China or Japan, who have several official encodings. With 7-zip, you'll have to change the settings on Windows.

Stop saying RAR

I still use this? Am I supposed to use something else more current?

I don't get why people say that no one ever had a paid copy of WinRAR because I had one back in 2010 when they hosted a giveaway. It was in German but all you need to do is fill in the name and email and you would receive the rarkey link via email. And that key worked from version 3 all the way till 5.12 or something. I turned to Bandizip after but from this video I am confident that the key probably works for WinRAR 6.00 as well.

personally i like winrar over 7zip a million times

Many years ago I won a giveaway for a legit key of WinRAR. At first, seemed like nothing had changed to me, but when I had a new computer and installed again WinRAR without the key, damn, I realized how freaking annoying the trial was.

Mass register and order physical CDs

winRawr *-*

I still use winrar

Interesting, that it is developed by a german company

Wheres the WinRar CD video?

7:24 if you click on the winrar title the ocean will start waving in the background, also if you click on the winrar icon it will fall down and bounce like a ball

Hahahaha interesting. Now i never RAR anymore since i quit downloading torrents. No joke. I serious.

9:27 4.20pm, I get the feeling he knew what he was doing!

Who uses safari in 2021? :D Especially on PC/Mac and not on a mobile device

Register deez

the key goes way back from '95 that's why it works. kekw

Hahahaah holy crap....you did it!

Rar.

My dad has a window and door fitter company and a few years ago, they subscribed a special program for about 100 € per month from a large window and door manufacturer. During the installation I saw a hint like "use WinRAR if this doesn't work, it's included on the CD-ROM". I thought "no way, they really put a shareware on this CD-ROM?". In fact: They didn't. On the CD-ROM was a goddamn old WinRAR version from 2002 including their site license file! I extracted this license file and it's still working with the most recent versions of WinRAR.

I actually registered winrar like 15 years ago. Still using the same license.

Unpack key file in WinRAR 2.9+ and put in in WinRAR dir directly.

I'm curious, how many people here use the free open-source option 7Zip instead of Winrar? 7zip is supposedly faster and slower in some things depending and I've also heard it covers more filetypes and is available on more operating systems.

can u do the pkzip/pkunzip in the win10?

What about bandicam!? No more watermarks for you!

Now go ahead and actually BUY PKZip 😄

This is one of the rarest event on earth.

I have ended up owning 3 copies of Winrar due to loosing computers and not being able to transfer licences. I didn't have time to always close the notification window when unzipping hundreds of folders every day

5:31 you just opened the winrar key file in “7zip” haha

WInRAR is better than 7z cuz COLOURS. -This post was made by WinRAR gang PS: I use 7zip

"i use 7-zip" wait, people dont use winRAR?

You might want to do a history episode on the ZIP archive format. It's a wonderful example of how winning a law suit can still result in the failure of your company because people simply don't like you and refuse to support your product.

LGR, dude. Google? What's wrong with you? Lycos, Altavista!

Forgive me Eugene, I once cracked WinRAR! But still got WinRAR on my system :) Unregistered and uncracked

I purhaced my winrar lisence 2009. Supporting this company is very good thing so I think this money went to right direction.

Now you have a granted place on Heaven.

"Chrome works but Safari doesn't' - nothing is closer to the truth

Thanks for rememboring . Registered now

There's a lot to unpack here. ... I'll see myself out.

It just hurts... you actually bought it for 40$? Damn...

Probably broke rarlab's consumer relations employee, by being the first ever consumer to purchase WinRAR.

This is a fun video. I was always curious why it was free forever,

*raises hand* I'm one of the few who registered it, back in 2004 or so! At the time I was like "ah sure, doesn't cost that much". 😂 I just checked the readme file that comes with the key and it says: "Please contact support 'at' rarlab 'dot' com if you need a key for an older WinRAR/RAR version then 2.60."

Back in the day I had a registered version of PKZIP for DOS !

WinRAR Team : Family, today we eat

Awww you should have found the exact cutoff version!

It's good that it works so far back!

oh my, this is legendary... xD

Buying WinRAR for a Mac LOL

To boldly go where no man has gone before

7zip ftw

Kliksphillip

Hey @LGR, have you considered covering Apple's PowerMac 5200? I can't be the only one out here with find memories of that thing.

I actually registered it about a gazillion years ago :) Wanted to give the programmers back for the great software I use day to day...

I bought WinZip back in the mid 90s, with the purchase printoff page proudly proclaiming that I had a LIFETIME registration code. And then, some short years later, the code stopped working, telling me it was invalid and I'd have to buy a new one. That was my first "Office Space Stapler Guy" moment. Too bad it wasn't the last. You, winzip folks, earned a gravity cancelling kick-in-the-nards for that one.

1:50 sick burn, bro.

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I'm imagining that episode of The Simpsons where Lisa buys Al Gore's book and since its the first one sold the alert is sent to him.

Some grandson is waking up his grandpa .. don't wanna give you a heart attack but someone registered a copy of your program grandpa.

Can u do a vid to format pc to factory settings on xp

The meme gods have been kind to WinRAR

* laughs in 7Zip *

My copy still works lol

Rarlab and WinRar GMBH actually changed their business model. Their new product, mobile app RAR, is fully free, but it has a nag screen asking you for a voluntary 5$ monthly subscription to support development, kinda like a tip jar Patreon. And honestly, I think I will subscribe when I get a job, to support development of free software.

TUCOWS

What a lovely way to start my Sunday ! Heaps more entertaining that I would've thought. Cheers, LGR :D

What about Total Commander? 😀

I was always curious what you got if you bought it. I guess the mystery is solved. Can't wait to see that CD.

man, that was a long 40 days

Nah, I'm team 7zip. I've stopped WinRar ever since.

You buy a Winrar license? Straight to heaven!

To be honest, this video combined with the fact it's my goto compression program made me order my license+CD aswell. It's a small sum for the amount of usage I got out of it over the years.

$3000 winrar copy giveaway when?

Fun fact: even if you buy winRar, the kry can be copied to other systems. So you can get up to 3 licenses for price of one.

who needs WinRar when 7-zip is better and truly for free?

I went through a similar exercise with Total Commander and Beyond Compare on my Retro PC. Short answer: Total Commander's registration still totally works on the 16-bit version, and Beyond Compare registrations are version specific, but a quick e-mail to support will give you an older key if you want it (and already registered, naturally)

I still use WinRAR. Never really bothered with 7zip, and stopped using WinZip in the mid 2000's (when I switched to WinRAR.

I personally use a mix of WinRAR and 7Zip as WinRAR is better at opening archived applications, as it temporarily extracts the whole archive, unlike 7Zip, which only extracts the executable, which fails if it depends on any external files, which most executables do

MS Office XP / 2003 / 2007 are paid software which all people use it free

My friend in college bought it, he was a genuine good guy.

I use 7zip, works on everything, is open source and free

The problem back then was finding ANY reliable file to unzip, winzip just ended up pissing me off. I appreciate WinRar, I have thought about registering before, but I already knew it was meant for large company enterprises to make full use of. I only needed a mere 'kb' of info to unfold. All I can do, at least right now, is thank WinRar! Thanks WinRAR! Thanks for not being a greedy PoS, like MicroDick-err-Soft company!

Maybe I shouldn't give you any ideas. but next you should register a copy of Nero burring rom.

I prefer 7zip

I'm curious, why would you want to have Win Rar any more. You got ICloud back up and ssd's are really cheap now.

OMG! Games instaled on Windows XP :) Thanks for reminding me on same old days :)

you took a gigantic load off of me

man I love some nerdy shit

Tsk tsk tsk.. You did notice it said your license was for a single PC usage, but you just installed it on like 8 different PC's.. I think you owe Rarlab some more money! Maybe need a bulk license?

Just use 7zip lol

*me being a 7zip user for 10+ years*

I can't believe how interesting this was... ahh WinRAR, what a legacy. Stoked to see the CD!

Great video. The nag screen doesn't come up if you right click an archive and extract from there. You hadn't mentioned it yet when I typed this if it comes up later. My memory sucks these days so I have to type thoughts or chances are I forget before the end.

Lol, just after I watched the video another youtuber I watch wrote on Twitter that he had to register WinRAR for corporate use. What a coincidence.

This was educational and entertaining at the same time. And the memories... oh, the memories...

I remember pirating it just to skip that nagging screen but later just switched to 7zip