can never recover from this one
Damn. We all know 7zip is free too.
A friend of mine still uses a cracked version of WinRAR from over a decade ago. I said he should just install 7zip and he looked at me like I was crazy.
i can recommend Nanazip, it's a more modern open source 7-zip fork that nicely integrates into the Win11 context menu
https://github.com/M2Team/NanaZip