Winzip or the like

[PattiChati]

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.

 

[Lifer]

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.