The AchieVer Posted February 18, 2019 Share Posted February 18, 2019 How to zip a file in Windows 10 Learn how to zip a file or folder in Windows 10 Zipping files and folders is a very useful tool to have in your belt as it allows you to compress and shrink files and folders making them far easier to upload to the cloud, or move onto a hard drive. Zipping files makes them much smaller and easier to manage, but its contents can't be accessed while the file is still zipped up. We're going to show you how to create a zipped file, and how to unpack one too. Windows 10 has this feature built-in you will be thankful to hear, so you won’t need to download third party software. Hooray! Read on to find out how you can quickly zip up your files in Windows 10. How to zip files and folders You can zip your files and folders directly from Windows Explorer. Open up the File Explorer and navigate your way to the file(s) or folders you’d like to zip up. Select a single file or folder, or select several by holding ‘Ctrl’ down and clicking on several files or folders. Right-click, head down to ‘Send To’ and hover your mouse over it. Select ‘Compressed (zipped) folder’ A zipped folder will appear within the directory that you’re currently in containing the files you have selected How to unzip a file in Windows 10 Unzipping a folder in Windows 10 is thankfully nice and simple too, so follow the steps below to find out how. Right-click on the folder and select ‘Extract all’ Windows will then ask you where you would like to extract the contents of your zipped file to. Once you have selected this, hit ‘Extract’ and Windows will pull your folders out of the zipped file ready for use. It's just as simple as that. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zipping files and folders is a very useful tool to have in your belt as it allows you to compress and shrink files and folders making them far easier to upload to the cloud, or move onto a hard drive. Zipping files makes them much smaller and easier to manage, but its contents can't be accessed while the file is still zipped up. We're going to show you how to create a zipped file, and how to unpack one too. Windows 10 has this feature built-in you will be thankful to hear, so you won’t need to download third party software. Hooray! Read on to find out how you can quickly zip up your files in Windows 10. How to zip files and folders You can zip your files and folders directly from Windows Explorer. Open up the File Explorer and navigate your way to the file(s) or folders you’d like to zip up. Select a single file or folder, or select several by holding ‘Ctrl’ down and clicking on several files or folders. Right-click, head down to ‘Send To’ and hover your mouse over it. Select ‘Compressed (zipped) folder’ A zipped folder will appear within the directory that you’re currently in containing the files you have selected How to unzip a file in Windows 10 Unzipping a folder in Windows 10 is thankfully nice and simple too, so follow the steps below to find out how. Right-click on the folder and select ‘Extract all’ Windows will then ask you where you would like to extract the contents of your zipped file to. Once you have selected this, hit ‘Extract’ and Windows will pull your folders out of the zipped file ready for use. It's just as simple as that. Source
Swoosh Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 Most of us have Winrar installed. With winrar you can make zipfiles too. Also easy to add to rightclick (first level) context menu: ZIP archive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalju Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 @Swoosh This story reminded me one of an old saying, perhaps even a proverb - "Every new thing is well forgotten old." True, I've never had Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000 But at least in Windows XP that I had, there was already this feature. But as you can see, it's just like a miracle here, what must take like something very new, what have never been and is just few seconds ago discovered. Young people's life is hard, the world wants to discover! Every day find something new, it's very hard, but interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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