Help with Downloading Game Mods

[Philippe]

I've had my copy of winrar for some time so things may have changed.

But I have a hazy recollection of picking it up at the winrar website.

There are several things that I like about it.

First, it feels like a much better engineered program than the zip program. I make, send, and receive a lot of zip files, and rarely do anything with rar files. But I use winrar for everything because it's easier to use than the zip program and, ironically, seems to do a better job of handling zip files than the zip program itself. Go figure.

Second, and I probably shouldn't talk about this in public, I'm still using a trial copy. The difference between the zip trial copy and winrar trial copy is that the zip trial copy eventually subjects you to a countdown timer and you have to sit around and wait for increasingly long times every time you use it. Winrar doesn't work that way, it just gives you a single pop-up message every time you use it. So the price for using a winrar trial copy is that you have to make one extra mouse click, but the price for using the zip trial copy is increasingly long and frustrating wait times (geared to how long and often you've used it).

So not only does winrar do a better job of handling zip files, but it's much less annoying to use.