CREATING A ZIP FOLDER WINDOWS 10 HOW TO
CREATING A ZIP FOLDER WINDOWS 10 ARCHIVE
CREATING A ZIP FOLDER WINDOWS 10 WINDOWS 8
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(Windows 10 only)ħ-Zip (and other useful free tools) can be downloaded and installed here under the ‘Compression’ list of tools.

CREATING A ZIP FOLDER WINDOWS 10 ARCHIVE

There are two ways to create an encrypted Zip or RaR archive folder:ġ.

CREATING A ZIP FOLDER WINDOWS 10 HOW TO

Instructions on how to send (or receive) file(s)/folder(s) to a third party using OxFile can be found here. Some email client can be set to prevent the reception of Zip or RaR file.Email is limited to 100MB attachment size – OxFile’s limit is 25,000MB.It is best to send these file types to recipients using the OxFile file transfer service, as opposed to via email for the following reasons: Your resulting Zip or RaR archive folder can then be easily sent to a third party. Zip and RaR are just two technologies that are freely available to do this – other technologies are available that do the same job. Want to extract something? Easy enough, just drag it out of the folder.If you have a collection of files and folders to send to someone, a Zip or RaR archive folder will allow you to combine them all into a single file and protect (encrypt) all the contents with a single password. Note that this is also how you work with zip archives too, so if your boss says “zip it up and send it”, this is the fast way to do just that, by creating a Compressed Folder. Add another dozen files and the size reduction could be even more dramatic. Still, we went from a combined 38K down to a far more transportable 11K. On the other end of the scale, Win8 couldn’t compress the DSC00434 image at all, with the starting size and final “compressed” size the same. The first data file was reduced by a whopping 90%, from 37K to 4K. The third column shows the compressed size of the file, the fifth the original size and – most interestingly! – the last column shows how well the compression algorithm did trying to shrink the file down. You can see that I’ve added a text file (which it confusingly says is a “3 File” type), two PNG images and a MOV movie. Īt any point you can double-click on the folder to see how it’s doing with the compression: When you let go of the Control key and the mouse / trackpad, a tiny menu pops up:Ĭhoose “Copy Here” and add everything you want to the folder. I prefer to put copies of files in the folder, however, which is easily accomplished by holding down the Control key while you drag things in. Now you can drag files, pictures, music, movies, whatever you’d like into the folder and it’ll be compressed as it goes. Or leave it as is by clicking on the Desktop. Since the name is already selected, simply start typing in a better name like “Miller Project” or “Africa Pics”. Not a very creative name, so the first thing Microsoft assumes you want to do is rename it.

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To start, go to your Desktop in Windows 8 (or any other version of Windows you might be running), and right-click on the background.Īs you can see, the last entry under the “New” submenu is “Compressed (zipped) Folder”.Ĭhoose that and a new “folder” shows up on the Desktop:

I’ll demonstrate how to create a compressed folder, but it’s a bit hard to understand what it’s doing: the system presents it as if it’s just a regular data folder, but as you add things, they’re automatically being compressed, and if you attach the folder to an email, for example, it’s actually a file itself with the “.zip” suffix. Having said that, I’ll also say that this feature hasn’t changed much at all in a long time and works the same in Windows 7, Vista and probably Windows ME and Windows 3.1 if you’re still running that. In fact, you’ll be surprised how few clicks are involved in creating a special “compressed” folder and dragging whatever you’d like to include within. While a number of Win8 capabilities are tricky to work with, compressed folders are a breeze.

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