BleepingComputer.com: How To Create A Compressed (.zip) Folder

How to Create a Compressed Folder

Guide Overview

The purpose of this guide is to teach you how to create a compressed folder. The files inside this folder will be compressed in size. This method is useful for E-mailing multiple files as attachments.

Video guide showing these steps

How to Create a Compressed Folder

Tools Needed

• No tools needed.

Instructions

• Please open the folder that you wish to compress.
  
• In the top left hand corner of the window click 'file'
  
• Click 'new'
  
• Click 'Compressed (zipped) folder'
  
• A folder will appear in the Window that looks like this:
  
  
• The folder will have a temporary name. Right click on the folder.
  
• Click the 'rename' and replace the temporary name with an appropriate one.
  
• Then, drag the files you wish to compress, on top of the compressed folder icon.
  
• Windows will add a copy of the file to the folder. The original file will remain.

You can open the files in a compressed folder as you would open any file on your computer. You cannot make changes to the files within the compressed folder.

This post has been edited by D-Trojanator: 19 November 2006 - 03:26 PM