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How To Open A .Zip File With Winzip

These screen shots were made while I was using Winzip 8.0. To download Winzip if you don't have it, check out Winzip.com. Believe me, this is a program worth its cost.

Before you start to open a file, make sure you open Winzip first. Most of these screen shots were made while opening a .zip file to install a Yahoo! theme. However, the trick to opening .zip fills, no matter the contents, is the same.

Opening a zip file

After opening Winzip, to open the file you want to unzip, click this button.

Finding the file to open

The open archive screen will open up over Winzip. You will need to go through the folders located on your hard drive or floppy disk until you find the file you want to open. A good tip is to have a specific folder you download all your files to. After finding the file you want to open, highlight that file and press "Open" to open it.

A shot of an opened .zip file

The contents of a .zip will be displayed once you open the file. To extract a file from the .zip, highlight the file and hit the Extract button.

Selecting more than one file to extract

If you are wanting to unzip all the contents of a .zip file, hightlight a file, right click on the file and choose "Select All." Then press extract.
 

Extract screen shot

No matter if you are extracting one file, a couple of files, or all the files in a .zip file, this menu will pop up after you press extract. This is where you choose to load the files you are extracting onto your hard drive. For example I have a file C:/downloads/Gunk.zip. I want to extract Gunk as a Yahoo! theme. I will need to extract the contents of Gunk.zip into a folder called C:/Program Files/Yahoo!/Messenger/Skins/Gunk.

Extraction menu

This shot is a better shot of the extraction screen.

You will probably need to make a new folder. The next to screen shots will explain how to do that.

Click the "New Folder" button to create a new folder (sub-folder) into the directory (folder) you plan toextract your files to.

Type in the name of the new folder you want to use and press "OK" to create it.

Extract screen shot

After creating a new folder or if you decide not to create a new folder for the files you are extracting, all you need to hit for the files to be extracted is "Extract." And that's it for unziping files.

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