Re: [NF] WinZip ripoff warning

Author: Paul Hill

Posted: 2011-12-08 at 02:24:22

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Dan Covill <dcovill@san.rr.com> wrote:

> 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.

Sure you can. Send To... Compressed (zipped) Folder

It's very slow though.

> 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.

I'm a big fan of 7Zip too.

--

Paul

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