WinZip - ZIP Compression Tool

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When you need to restore the music file to another computer, you need to follow there steps:

0. Insert the first diskette into the computer.

1. Run WinZIP and select menu File > Open Archive. The "Open Archive" dialog box shows up.

2. Select the ZIP file, a:\my_music.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. WinZIP will start to read the ZIP file from the first diskette.

6. When the first diskette is done, it will ask for the second diskette.

7. WinZip will continue to read the entire ZIP file from all 4 diskettes.

8. Exit WinZip.

Windows Explorer Context Menu

Winzip can be configured with a number of options in the Windows Explorer context menu. There menu options provide you short cuts to different WinRAR functions. Let's setup some of them and do some tests.

1. Run WinZIP and select menu Options > Configuration. The configuration dialog box shows up.

2. Click the Explorer Enhancements tab and make the following context menu commands checked:

• Add to Zip...
• Add to <file name>.zip
• Extract to...
• Extract to here
• Extract to <folder name>
• Create Self-Extractor(.EXE)
• ...

3. Click the OK button and exit WinZip.

4. Run Start > Accessories > Windows Explorer.

5. Locate a directory name that you want to compress into a ZIP file.

6. Right mouse click on the directory name. The context menu shows up. You should see "WinZip" is listed there as a submenu entry.

7. Select context menu WinZip > Add to <file name>.zip. The selected directory will be compressed into a ZIP file. The new ZIP file will be located in the current directory.

8. Delete the compressed directory and keep the ZIP file.

9. Locate the newly created ZIP file and select context menu WinZip > Extract to here. The compressed directory will be extract out of the ZIP file.

Conclusion

• WinZip is nice tool to compress files into ZIP files to save space on the hard disk. You should also compress files if you want to send them as emails to save communication time and mail box space.
• Context menu options are nice short cuts to create or extract ZIP files.
• Password protection is a good feature to help you protect your privacy.
• Spanning a ZIP file to multiple diskettes is useful to move large files on diskettes.

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