Password Protect A RAR File Using WinRAR

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WinRAR is my favorite archiving software till date.It’s so simple and easy to use.That’s why almost all PC users will have installed this by default as their archiving program.But how many of you are aware that you can actually password protect any RAR file using WinRAR ? If you don’t know how to do ut, follow these steps:

Steps:

1. Right click on the file for which you wan to archive with a password.

2. Select “Add to Archive”

add_to_archive_winrar

3. In the Archive name and parameters window, go to Advanced tab, click “Set Password”

Archive name and parameters password

4. Choose the password for the archive and click OK.

setting archive password in Winrar

You can select “Encrypt file names” option if you want to encrypt the files names also, if this is selected, users will not be able to even see the contents of the archive file.

WInRAR 3.80 Free Licence Key Giveaway

Well, WinRAR is the best file archiving tool that I have ever used.WinRAR works well with RAR, ZIP archives and can also be used in unpacking ARJ,LZH,TAR,GZ,ACE,UUE,BZ2,JAR,ISO,EXE,7z, & Z archives.WinRAR started supporting Windows Vista from version 3.70 and the latest version WinRAR 3.90 support Windows 7 as well.

The WinRAR version for which you can get key through this process is ‘version 3.80’.The key obtained through this tutorial is absolutely legitimate and it is offered by a German tech magazine.

Follow These Steps:

  • Step 1: Download Winrar 3.80
  • Step 2: Visit this German proxy site, as the offer is valid only in German and hence we have to use proxy with German server and not any other proxy site like hidemyass.com.

Proxy site LINK

  • Step 3: Enter this URL ‘https://covermount.win-rar.com/pcwelt0310/’ in the form and hit  ‘GO’ button.
  • Step 4:  Now it’ll take you to the German website, scroll down to the registration form as shown in the screen shot

WinRar Free Licence Give away site Regsitration form in Germany

Checkout this image, which shows the same page in English if you are still finding it difficult to fill-in.

  • Step 5: Enter the your details in the form follow the above screen shot for reference and you can either check or uncheck the option below the form(that’s for subscribing to their newsletter) and click the button which reads “Abschicken” (which means ‘Submit’ in German).
  • Step 6: Check your email, and find the link similar to below:

https://covermount.win-rar.com/pcwelt0310/download.php?email=user@mail.com

[Your email address would be present in place of ‘user@mail.com’]

  • Step 7: Open the link in new tab and this open a webpage where you’ll find a download link:

Downloading WinRar key REG file

  • Step 8: You will be asked to download a file called “rarkey.rar” which contains rarreg.key which is the key that you wanted.

WinRAR key file in rarkey

Now double click the key file to install the key and now you have a full licensed WinRAR 3.80 version and this key is valid till 30.09.2010.

Leave a comment if you have any troubles while going through these steps.