winrar is not free, but ive been using it over a year now without purchasing it.

[Solodays]

everytime u open it , its saids it's only a 40 day trial. but ive been using it for a year now without the need of purchasing it.

 

[mundane]

Congrats.

 

[pradeep1]

Yeah, I've had the same experience. I installed winrar to open some obscure file and about two years later, I opened another .rar file and it worked without any problems. It did let me know my trial had expired.

I guess their nagware is not that nagging at all.

 

[henryay]

Try 7-zip. Open Source.

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: pradeep1
Yeah, I've had the same experience. I installed winrar to open some obscure file and about two years later, I opened another .rar file and it worked without any problems. It did let me know my trial had expired.

I guess their nagware is not that nagging at all.

It still nags me and tells me I need to pay to keep opening archives...right before it opens the archive

 

[TheGizmo]

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Originally posted by: pradeep1
Yeah, I've had the same experience. I installed winrar to open some obscure file and about two years later, I opened another .rar file and it worked without any problems. It did let me know my trial had expired.

I guess their nagware is not that nagging at all.

It still nags me and tells me I need to pay to keep opening archives...right before it opens the archive

yea but you can cancel out of that really quickly.

 

[xSkyDrAx]

you must feel real clever

 

[ForumMaster]

bug in the software? i doubt it. unnagging nagware? yup.

 

[iamaelephant]

Originally posted by: henryay
Try 7-zip. Open Source.

FTW.

 

[FleshLight]

I've been using it for the past 5 years and I've never paid for it either

 

[HardcoreRobot]

ill call local news

 

[CPA]

Originally posted by: FleshLight
I've been using it for the past 5 years and I've never paid for it either