Winzip must be one of the most popular data compression programs, with good reason, it’s one of the best programs available, in my own humble opinion. Winzip has always been a commercial program, which means after the evaluation period you are supposed to pay for a licence key. In the past however you could keep using the program years after the evaluation period was over. This has changed with the release of version 11.0 as I discovered this morning. So before you decide to upgrade from version 10.0 to 11.0 be aware that after the evaluation period is over Winzip will simply stop working. Your choice then is to pay the $30, downgrade to version 10 (if you have saved a copy somewhere) or switch to 7-zip (a very good alternative) or similar.
Just so ya know…
Wee Winzip warning
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What do you think of WinRAR?
I have both, WinZip 8.0 e WinRAR 3.30
Cheers for the tip. I tend to just automatically download all Windows updates, so I’ll avoid this one for a while.
Antonio, never tried Winrar. 7-zip fulfils all my needs. Winrar any good?
Kav, no probs! I’m always fairly quick to download software updates, which is why I got caught with winzip.
WinZip/WinRAR’s nag screens worked on me. They annoyed me so much I went to download.com and searched for a free alternative. Enter 7zip.
I’ve been using 7zip for ages. It’s great for nerds, but AFAIK (I haven’t tried futtering too much with it) it lacks the intuitive double-click-to-open that Winzip/WinRAR employ.
Still, the price is right.
Welcome to Raiméis ‘nerd’.
I agree, 7Zip, as good as it is, is lacking in certain areas. The UI isn’t great either. Still my first choice these days though.
Hi Maca,
sorry for disappearing from your blog, I noticed there were no updates lately.
Anyway, WinRar is pretty good to me, though is not widely used so that any file you compress with it need the next user to have WinRar himself in order open it and this can be a weak point.
And, as far as I remember, it doesn’t need registration. I could be wrong, though…