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How to unzip files in Windows 7 / Windows XP [Full guide]
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
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Zip archive are used for plenty of years because of their versatility. You can compress data and free impressive amounts of space from your drive by doing so.
Many of you have worked with Zip files and know the answer to our title question. But if you need to know all about unzipping files in Windows 7 and Windows XP, the following guide will be more than clarifying.
How do you open a zipped file?
Download and install WinZip
As you might have guessed, the zipped adjective comes from the best archiving and unarchiving toolWinZip. So unzipping will naturally start with downloading and installing this awesome tool by clicking on the big button below.
WinZip is the best tool for unzipping simply because it’s fast, it can handle multiple archives at the same time and it supports more than 24 archive file types, including ZIP, ZIPX, TAR, TAR GZ, RAR, 7Z, GZ, IMG, GZIP, GZ, and many others, even ISO images.
This tool is also great because it comes with a lot of other interesting features like the 128-bit and 256-bit AES encryption or the PDF to Word and Word to PDF conversion.
You can try WinZip before buying so it will have enough time to amaze you.
WinZip
Extract the archive from the contextual menu
Extract the archive from WinZip
This is our guide on how to unzip files in Windows 7 / Windows XP. It’s pretty simple, right? You can leave us a comment below if you’ve had any problems during the process.
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Claudiu Andone
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His abrupt interest in computers started when he saw the first Home Computer as a kid. However, his passion for Windows and everything related became obvious when he became a sys admin in a computer science high school.
With 14 years of experience in writing about everything there is to know about science and technology, Claudiu also likes rock music, chilling in the garden, and Star Wars. May the force be with you, always!
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Claudiu Andone
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Oldtimer in the tech and science press, with 14 years of experience in writing on everything there is to know about science, technology, and Microsoft
