E-raser Posted January 10, 2022 Member ID: 23622 Group: ++ COD5 Admin Followers: 26 Topic Count: 54 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 583 Content Per Day: 0.17 Reputation: 493 Achievement Points: 5995 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 11/25/15 Status: Offline Last Seen: 17 hours ago Birthday: 01/01/1954 Device: Windows Posted January 10, 2022 I don't really need help, but just an observation. I have been using Winzip14(paid and registered), but thought I would check out a newer version when I ran across a *.xz compressed file that winzip14 wouldn't recognize. So I clicked on winzip14 menu 'check for updates' , but got a message 'server not found'. So I did a google search and found that Winzip is now on version 26 and would handle the *.xz compression. So I downloaded the trial.. What happened is the trial removed my registered winzip14 program so now all I had was the 'trial' version 26. I thought I would check on it's pricing since it was a major update from version 14 ... found out it is now a 'subscription' cost .. whoa!! I also then realized it is now a Coral company as well... Probably why the 'check for updates / server now found' showed up in my winzip 14. So... used the trial to unzip the *.xz file, then removed version 26 and reinstalled my old trusty registered winzip14 Hunter1948, BlackRose, loaderXI and 2 others 5 Awards
loaderXI Posted January 10, 2022 Member ID: 252 Group: +++ COD2 Head Admin Followers: 72 Topic Count: 396 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 6438 Content Per Day: 1.13 Reputation: 6581 Achievement Points: 54654 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 32 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 27 Birthday: 03/22/1965 Device: Windows Posted January 10, 2022 So many things will be moving to subscription base only and I suspect Microsoft may play a roll in disabling software programs as they force updates on computers...Toyota announced that their remote start function from key fob will be on a subscription bases and I would not be a bit surprised if Microsoft does it as well... BlackRose, larrymc and E-raser 2 1 Awards
J3st3r Posted January 10, 2022 Member ID: 2162 Group: ++ COD4 Admin Followers: 153 Topic Count: 152 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 5223 Content Per Day: 1.00 Reputation: 5172 Achievement Points: 45911 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 24 Joined: 01/25/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: 17 hours ago Birthday: 02/26/1972 Device: Windows Posted January 10, 2022 Very good free open source program that fully supports .XZ and many others is 7-Zip. It's regularly updated as well. https://www.7-zip.org/ baldie, CW4, Izumi and 5 others 6 2 Awards
larrymc Posted January 10, 2022 Member ID: 29464 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 6 Topic Count: 14 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 156 Content Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 183 Achievement Points: 2387 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/21/21 Status: Offline Last Seen: 7 hours ago Device: Windows Posted January 10, 2022 smart move E-RASER E-raser and BlackRose 2 Awards
BlackRose Posted January 10, 2022 Member ID: 2208 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 112 Topic Count: 327 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 3817 Content Per Day: 0.73 Reputation: 4309 Achievement Points: 39671 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 63 Joined: 02/09/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: 15 hours ago Birthday: 06/09/1963 Device: Windows Posted January 10, 2022 1 hour ago, loaderXI said: So many things will be moving to subscription base only and I suspect Microsoft may play a roll in disabling software programs as they force updates on computers...Toyota announced that their remote start function from key fob will be on a subscription bases and I would not be a bit surprised if Microsoft does it as well... wtf!!! thats nasty,,, E-raser 1 Awards
E-raser Posted January 10, 2022 Member ID: 23622 Group: ++ COD5 Admin Followers: 26 Topic Count: 54 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 583 Content Per Day: 0.17 Reputation: 493 Achievement Points: 5995 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 11/25/15 Status: Offline Last Seen: 17 hours ago Birthday: 01/01/1954 Device: Windows Author Posted January 10, 2022 1 hour ago, J3st3r said: Very good free open source program that fully supports .XZ and many others is 7-Zip. It's regularly updated as well. https://www.7-zip.org/ Thank you , i’ll have to check that one out - I was also thinking about ‘Winrar’ … Awards
TBB Posted January 10, 2022 Member ID: 989 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 25 Topic Count: 290 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 20406 Content Per Day: 3.65 Reputation: 22490 Achievement Points: 147508 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 391 Joined: 01/07/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 4 hours ago Birthday: 01/27/1946 Device: Windows Posted January 10, 2022 Becoming the standard nowadays BUDMAN 1 Awards
Red Posted January 10, 2022 Member ID: 20952 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 18 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 310 Content Per Day: 0.08 Reputation: 195 Achievement Points: 2288 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/07/14 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 27 Device: Windows Posted January 10, 2022 Try https://www.ghisler.com/ Total-commander got it all it also a good explorer program It is free or pay version Older names are Win-commander and Dos-commander E-raser 1
Johnny3Time Posted January 10, 2022 Member ID: 20371 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 159 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 306 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 341 Achievement Points: 2728 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/19/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 27 Birthday: 06/11/1966 Device: Windows Posted January 10, 2022 5 hours ago, E-raser said: Thank you , i’ll have to check that one out - I was also thinking about ‘Winrar’ … Been using WinRaR for a very long time, over 10 years. It has a nag box to purchase a license or uninstall but you can just close it, you don't ever have to pay for it unless you want to. E-raser 1 Awards
Sammy Posted January 11, 2022 Member ID: 3036 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 219 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 9419 Content Per Day: 1.92 Reputation: 7515 Achievement Points: 62539 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 17 Birthday: 04/26/2008 Device: Windows Posted January 11, 2022 I will second getting 7zip. Been using it for years and never looked back. E-raser 1 Awards
Izumi Posted January 11, 2022 Member ID: 2593 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 5 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 490 Content Per Day: 0.10 Reputation: 977 Achievement Points: 5109 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 06/13/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2024 Birthday: 11/20/1978 Device: Windows Posted January 11, 2022 Can also vouch for 7Zip. E-raser 1 Awards
KaptCrunch Posted January 11, 2022 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 48 Topic Count: 317 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4887 Content Per Day: 0.86 Reputation: 4072 Achievement Points: 39535 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 51 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 3 hours ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Posted January 11, 2022 7 hours ago, BlackRose said: wtf!!! thats nasty,,, no that's Greedy Loader: MS has started long along on office program Awards
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