Winzip or the like

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"PattiChati" <PattiChati@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have a file I downloaded. I thought Windows XP had its own "winzip"
>feature. How do you work it. I right click on the zipped file and click
>on extract and all it gives me is a box that says unzip. I have tried
>every possibility and it doesn't work.
> I then tried to download winzip at various sites and it won't download.
> Something about it cannot find the server? My internet is working fine.
> Any ideas?????
> Thanks.
>
Inside XP, the zip/unzip is done behind the scenes. You activate it by
setting the Properties for a file/s to "Compress Contents to Save Disk
Space". To get to it, right click a file, click Properties, the select
Advanced and the choice will be there for you to use. That's as close as
you get to it in XP; you get the benefits of the winzip compression but few
choices as to how you can use it. You either compress or you don't compress
file/s or folder/s.

WinZip for Windows: Go to winzip.com to download it. There you'll get the
options you're expecting.

Beyond this much, your post is too confused to guess anything more.