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WinZip - ZIP Compression Tool
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Extracting ZIP Files
1. Run WinZIP and select menu File > Open Archive. The "Open Archive" dialog box shows up.
2. Select a ZIP file, like c:\temp\test1.zip, and click the OK button. The ZIP file will be opened
inside WinZip window.
3. Select menu Actions > Extract. The Extract dialog box shows up.
4. Select a directory where you want the files to extracted to, for example c:\temp.
5. Click the Extract button. All the files in the ZIP will be extract to c:\temp.
Setting Password in ZIP Files
To stop other people extract files out of your ZIP files, you can set up a password
in a ZIP file. Here is how:
1. Run WinZip and select menu File > New Archive. The "New Archive" dialog box shows up.
2. Enter test3.zip as the file name for the new ZIP file in c:\temp directory.
3. Click the OK button. The "Add" dialog box shows up.
4. Click the Password button. The "Password" dialog box shows up.
5. Enter a password and click the OK button. WinZip will ask the password again for confirmation.
6. Continue with the "Add" dialog box to finish adding files/directories to the ZIP file.
7. Look at the compressed files in WinZip window, you should see a "+" sign at the end of each
file name. "+" is an indicator that this file is password protected.
8. Close WinZip and run WinZip again.
9. Select menu File > Open Archive. The "Open Archive" dialog box shows up.
10. Select a ZIP file, like c:\temp\test1.zip, and click the OK button. The ZIP file will be opened
inside WinZip window.
11. Select menu Actions > Extract. The Extract dialog box shows up.
12. Select a directory where you want the files to extracted to, for example c:\temp.
13. Click the Extract button. The "Password" dialog box shows up.
14. Enter the same password you used when creating this ZIP file and click the OK button.
15. Continue with the extracting process to finish extract compressed files.
Creating a ZIP File on Multiple Diskettes
WinZip also allows you to create a ZIP on diskette. If the ZIP file is larger than a single
diskette, it will span onto multiple diskettes. Creating ZIP files on diskettes are useful
if you have computers that are not connected, and want to moves files through diskettes.
Suppose that I have a sample music file, my_music.mp3. Its file size is 4713 KB.
Here are the steps to compress it onto multiple diskettes:
0. Insert a formatted blank diskette into the computer.
1. Run WinZip and select menu File > New Archive. The "New Archive" dialog box shows up.
2. Enter a:\my_music.zip as the file name for the new ZIP file.
3. Click the OK button. The "Add" dialog box shows up.
4. Make sure that "Multiple disk spanning" is selected.
5. Select the music file, my_music.pm3 and click the "Add" button.
6. WinZip will start to write the ZIP file to the first diskette.
7. When the first diskette is full, it will prompt you to insert the second diskette.
8. WinZip will continue to write the ZIP file on 4 diskettes. You should write down
the numbers on the diskettes and keep them together as a set.
9. Exit WinZip.
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