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Free WinRAR key

August 10, 2006 by in Cool,Downloadable with 34 Comments

Last Sunday WinRAR decided to have a one day free-for-all promotion, giving away license keys to anyone who was on thier mailing list. So obviously, if you were not on their mailing list you had no idea of the free giveaway.

With promotion expired, there is still a way to get this free key. Here’s the trick, they sent the same key to all 40,000 users that benefited from the promotion, and now that key is available for download from Simtel (one of WinRAR’s partners in this).

  • Download the key: WinRAR Free Key 3.51
  • Now go to WinRAR’s official site and download version 3.51
  • Install WinRAR 3.51, go to where you downloaded the key (rarkey.rar) and unpack it. You’ll get a rarreg.key that you’ll have to copy in Program Files-WinRAR (the installation folder for WinRAR). After that you should see Registered to “PCA Special Offer”

  • http://blog.deadlycomputer.com steve

    sweet, i added my email address to the list, but i never got an email last week.
    oh well, this worked easy and great!

  • http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog Joe Anderson

    It also works if you put the key there first :P

  • shakir

    thanks.

  • Justin

    muchos gracias, dan

  • mike

    the irony that the key was zipped using winrar.

  • ret joule

    please

  • Jean

    Le jour de distribution, j’ai tenté d’obtenir la version gratuite, mais leur site était hors-service. J’ai téléchargé la dite version despuis un site miroir et j’ai envoyé un message chez Winrar pour obtenir la clé gratuite. Ils m’ont répondu quelques jours après me disant que la distribution gratuite n’était plus valide, la date était dépassée et que si je voulait acheter leur produit, il me donnerait 30 % d’escompte. Donc pas de gratuit !

    Merci de votre solution

  • mitko

    done! thank you!

  • ME

    Thanks very good

  • Sara

    many thanks for info – will be bookmarking you !

  • http://aqfl.net Ant

    Does this work for v3.60? It didn’t work for me in it. :(

  • Justin

    I don’t think so…i tried also

  • Myles

    @ Ant & Justin

    Why not just download 3.51? The link is offered here on this page, just use that one, it does all the same stuff.

  • Steve

    Works perfecly – no Virusus, did get tracking cookie during download – easy to remove with Ad-Aware SE (Free download and infinite use).

  • mameaw

    i have already installed it but i dont know what to do next and where to find
    the following?
    ” go to where you downloaded the key (rarkey.rar) and unpack it. You’ll get a rarreg.key that you’ll have to copy in Program Files-WinRAR (the installation folder for WinRAR). After that you should see Registered to “PCA Special Offerâ€Â?

    i dont know where to find rarkey.rar and how to unpack ? im new here please help me thank you

    Mameaw =)

  • Topher

    worked freaking great!!!!

  • MIKala

    Worked great. THAnks!

  • Sarah

    This works!!! Fantastic!!

  • Rebecca

    9-23-06 Worked Fantastic for me also!!! Thanks so much!!! Needed this to install Windows Vista I am beta testing!!!

  • Chris

    Thanks for the info. It worked great!

    BTW It did not work on 3.60 but 3.51 is fine

    Chris

  • dnmn61

    When I click to download the key, I get “Mislinked or missing file”.
    What do I do?

  • e. beverly

    i would like the free winrar key please. thank you

  • del4no

    Hi Bro’ how are u?
    I’d like to get a “Free WinRAR key” from u,
    Thx a lot.

  • RP

    Does anyone actually have this key? I have been trying to download it from Simtel and all I keep getting is “server is busy” and I can’t actually download it.

    Any assistance gratefully received!

  • Vincent

    Can you please upload or email me the WinRAR key, because that site is not working.

    Thank you,

    Vincent

  • http://none malicex

    thx for the sharing

  • Cheza

    Nothing seems to work. Also the link forces a 3.6 download. Any help would b appreciated.
    Thanx
    XD

  • Mechelle

    If you all want to download Winrar 3.51 go to this link:

    http://www.filehippo.com/download_winrar/?441

    This key thingy won’t work for any other versions. Especially since this key is over a year old.

  • Drini

    Geniuine thing, many thanks to you Robin Hood

  • http://www. Alin

    it works … thanks
    :D;):P

  • tom

    all you have to do is install 3.51 then unpack rarkey.rar then drag the file into the folder you installed winrar in ex” C:/program files/winRAR ”
    and it works.

    thank you very much Dan!!

  • LCS

    Thanks Buddy

  • ME

    NO LONGER WORKS

  • http://uneasysilence.com Uneasy

    That is because it was posted in 2006 :)

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