How to Open Zip Files with WinZip

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This tutorial will show you how to use WinZip. Don't forget to check out our site http://howtech.tv/ for more free how-to videos! http://youtube.com/ithowtovids - our feed http://www.facebook.com/howtechtv - join us on facebook https://plus.google.com/103440382717658277879 - our group in Google+ In this tutorial, you'll learn how to compress multiple files into one ZIP file using WinZip, in order to decrease disk space usage, as well as group them all into one transferable file. Then, you'll learn how to extract zip files like the one you just created. Step # 1 -- Downloading WinZip Go to "www.WinZip.com" and click "Download Trial". On the next page, click "Download WinZip now". Click the "WinZip175.exe" file that appears on your downloads bar. Step # 2 -- Installing WinZip Select a language and click "OK". Click "Next" and then uncheck the option at the top otherwise the AVG Toolbar will be installed. Next, choose whether you'd like to send information about your usage to WinZip in order to help improve the program. Click "Next" and then "Finish". Step # 3 -- Compressing the selected files Now, navigate to the files you wish to compress to the zip file. Click the first file, and then hold "CTRL" on your keyboard, now click on the other files you wish to add to the compressed zip. Alternatively, if all of the files are next to each other in Windows Explorer, you can select them all at once by either dragging a select box over them, or holding "SHIFT" instead of "CTRL" and selecting the last file. Now, right-click any of the highlighted files, go to the "WinZip" menu, and click "Add to Zip file..." If you're using the trial version of WinZip, click "Use Evaluation Version". At the top where it says "Add to archive:" look just below that and add your desired zip file name to the end of that file path. Click "Add", and then "OK". Step # 4 -- Extracting your zip file Now let's retrieve those files. Find the zip file you created and right-click it. Go to the "WinZip" menu, and select "Extract to Folder" which will be followed by the file path of where the folder will appear. The folder should appear under the same name of the zip file, in the same directory where the zip was located. Well done, you now know how to compress and extract zip files using WinZip.

Comments

  1. Anti virus says it's a virus. Won't let me use it. It keeps deleting it.
  2. thank you so much
  3. virys
  4. Won't work with rar files. Dang it
  5. I can't believe I thought you need winzip to extract a zipped file. These corporations got us believing in mad bullshit to get our money. I uninstalled Winzip because the trial version was over. Guess what? All you have to do is double click on a file to extract it. But if you have winzip installed, it intercepts the command somehow and tells you your trial version is run out and that you need to give $30 to a faceless corporation that actually isn't providing you with a real service.
  6. hey my win zip dont launch how do i make it launch
  7. after downloading the winzip i get a registration thing i dont get to choose a language and i need a registration code?? help???
  8. Very helpful! Thanks a bunch!
  9. i am trying to download a mod for minecraft, and i try to put it in my folder but it just disappears and i dont know where it goes. can your help me???
  10. I am trying to submit work to a portal that wants a specific filename. I have to use an @ symbol in that filename. I then get a box that says filename of archive is not complete. Be sure to specify a valid filename. What do I do?