Help With .RAR

Ariadne · Mon 19/03/2007 09:18:09

Hi, everyone.
I can't play .rar games, so I looked at older posts and visited www.7-zip.org/download.html
The problem is that I don't understand a word of it! I have no idea what file to download!
I am copying below the part of the page with the files:
<<Download
Download 7-Zip 4.42 (2006-05-14) for Windows:

Link Type Windows Size Description
Download .exe 32-bit 818 KB 7-Zip
Download .msi 873 KB
Download x64 1238 KB
Download IA-64 1861 KB
Download .zip 32-bit 302 KB 7-Zip Command Line Version
Download .tar.bz2 Any 623 KB 7-Zip Source code
Download .tar.bz2 32-bit 415 KB 7z Library, SFXs for installers, Plugin for FAR Manager
Download .tar.bz2 Any 174 KB LZMA SDK 4.43 (C, C++, C#, Java)

Download links redirect to download page on SourceForge.net.
Download 7-Zip 4.44 beta (2007-01-20) for Windows:
Link Type Windows Size Description
Download .exe 32-bit 858 KB 7-Zip 4.44 beta
Download .msi 917 KB
Download x64 1319 KB>>.

Please help me!
I have Windows 2003.

GarageGothic · Mon 19/03/2007 09:33:45

Download and run the .exe file.

Ariadne · Mon 19/03/2007 09:49:47

Thank u, thank u thank u!

jetxl · Mon 19/03/2007 09:57:37

Need a *.rar and *.zip program? Winrar!
http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar37b4.exe

.rar!!!

Radiant · Mon 19/03/2007 11:01:47

Well, except that WinRAR is paid software, and 7-Zip does the same and is free.

BOYD1981 · Mon 19/03/2007 12:00:51

7-Zip is also rubbish, i always liked PowerArchiver until it became popular and therefore commercial software, but now i just use a completely authentic and legal version of WinRAR because it's very cheap and excellent.

Gilbert · Mon 19/03/2007 12:22:01

It's all up to personal preference, when I tried 7-zip I'll never use bloated commercial rubbish like winrar anymore. (PowerArchiver was good, but I won't return after changing to 7-zip).

Mould Cheeze · Mon 19/03/2007 12:41:55

Izarc is also a nice and free one:
http://www.izarc.org/

Ariadne · Mon 19/03/2007 13:18:28

Thank you all so much for replying! I would be completely lost and stuck without you!

Fleshstalker · Tue 20/03/2007 04:46:10

Say, I thought WinRAR was free? I've had WinRAR for like over 3 months and my trail expired, but I can still unzip files with it. lol

dasjoe · Tue 20/03/2007 11:46:07

yes, but that nag-screen reminds you it's not free.

Fleshstalker · Tue 20/03/2007 14:35:40

Yeah, that nag screen. I just close it and proceed with my business. It doesn't make sense why they put it if you can still use it. Its like if someone gave you a free video game (but they call it a demo) and during gameplay a message pops up saying its not free, but you can continue playing the whole game to the end, theres no reason to buy it.

They should have just made it expire completely like some of those program trials I got with my Dell PC. Until then I will continue to use WinRAR for free to me.

voh · Wed 21/03/2007 01:11:00

It's there to remind you. That's all it is - a reminder. They don't want to limit it to 30 days, because then everybody would flock to entirely free software. There's a lot of people (of which I am one) who, even after 2 years of just clicking the nag screen away, eventually think to themselves "damn, I've been using this for 2 years now, and I'm quite content with it", and purchase it.

It works

Fleshstalker · Wed 21/03/2007 01:14:44

We will see how long it takes me to give in to purchase it. I probably never will though since I'm very cheap when it comes to downloads. I only like free downloads, if you catch my drift.

voh · Wed 21/03/2007 02:59:12

Obviously, that's fine by them

If out of every 100 users 1 decides to buy it, that's still good. And their program is still used, which gets more people in on the whole thing, and if that adds another 100 users, that's another sale

It's not big money they're thinking off, just funding their development :p

Nikolas · Wed 21/03/2007 11:43:24

I was actually using Winace, and it was free for 30 days or something. Then I left it unregistered for another 150 something days. And then one day, just like that it stoped working! I got really pissed of becasue actually RAR compressed files with winace, do not uncompress well win WinRAR. I am dead anoyed by that, cause all the back up files I had in CDs, I had to go to a different computer, install winace and do a proper compression again. I wasted a full day (lots of GB)...

now I use 7zip all the way. I did try winrar, but somehow jus tdidn't feel right...