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WINZIP - COMPUTER HELP PLEASE
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Heather | Report | 5 Sep 2008 22:00 |
I ran out of my free trial on winzip and went to try and download another one (?) when I saw by buying some ink on trial pay I could get the complete winzip program for a year free. |
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Neil | Report | 5 Sep 2008 23:06 |
As you say winzip is a trial application which you have to pay for. Why not try 7-Zip which is free and handles the zip format fine (plus a few others). |
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Carol | Report | 5 Sep 2008 23:42 |
XP has it's own built in Zip program no need to buy one. Right click on the zipped file and select Extract All. |
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Neil | Report | 5 Sep 2008 23:43 |
Carol - it isn't very good though - very basic. |
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Carol | Report | 5 Sep 2008 23:49 |
I create a new folder on my Desktop before unzipping, then use XP Compressed File Utility, extract the files into the new folder. |
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agingrocker | Report | 6 Sep 2008 00:10 |
This may be a silly question, but I have no idea what you are all talking about! What is zipping? |
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agingrocker | Report | 6 Sep 2008 01:51 |
You must have all gone to bed! |
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Carol | Report | 6 Sep 2008 09:51 |
Zipping is the act of reducing the size of a file by shrinking it in size or packaging a set of files into a single file that is called a zip file. |
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Heather | Report | 6 Sep 2008 12:56 |
Thanks everyone. I got so fed up I gave up. |
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agingrocker | Report | 10 Sep 2008 23:17 |
As promised, thank you Carol! |