On 12/07/11 14:07, Mike Copeland wrote:

> WinXP SP3 (and possibly earlier as well as later...Vista, 7) opens ZIP

> files as folders, but for other needs, 7ZIP has been very helpful. There

> are many other free ZIP utilities available for Windows.

I used PKZIP from the DOS days, plus occasional WinZip when I didn't

have a command window. With Win 7-64 PKZIP won't run (16-bit), so I

switched to 7-Zip, and have no complaints whatever.

Win Vista and 7 open a zip file as a folder, and you can extract right

from Explorer. But you can't zip from there. BUT... if you have 7-Zip

installed you can just select whatever files you want and right-click;

the menu has '7-Zip' on it, and you can zip to a .7z or a .zip file, as

you wish.

Highly recommended.

Dan

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