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Register your WinZip!

© Krissi Danielsson

As a faithful and proficient downloader of shareware, it's probably safe to assume you've got WinZip. If you're a beginner, you'll probably get it soon--possibly from the WinZip home page.

For those of you not in the know, WinZip is possibly one of the coolest, most useful programs out there to be had for downloaders. You can use it to compress and decompress files for uploading or downloading, and it can even install the software for you directly from within the program.

But this probably isn't news to most of you. This might be though: WinZip is SHAREware, not freeware!

I have yet to see WinZip registered on any computer. It only recently struck me that it wasn't registered on the computer I'm using at work. (There had to be a reason why that dialog box kept popping up!) Having brought it up in conversation with a few people thus far, I've found that few people even pay much attention to the fact that they're supposed to register it in the first place!

C'mon people--this is a useful utility that someone spent a lot of time and effort producing. The registration fee isn't that high (less than $20). Why don't you pay up?

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Once you've registered your copy, check the version. If you don't have Version 7 yet, check it out. This new version includes support for Microsoft's CAB format, a configurable toolbar with 21 buttons, and a tabbed dialog box to make for easier configuration.

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