How to Zip files on Windows 7

Last updated Jun 23, 2017 694

Want to send a file by e-mail, but do not know how? You have to pass a file on a USB stick but do not have space?

Quiet, this guide will teach you how to ” Zip ” files on Windows 7 using a simple program. Using ZipGenius will be possible to compress (or ” Zip ” ) a file, such as an image, and to preserve the properties, but greatly reducing the installation footprint than the original file.

ZipGenius is an Open Source program that allows you to compress a file in various formats. To install ZipGenius you have to download the installation file from the following link: http://www.zipgenius.com/zipgenius-download-center/ (click Download pane ZipGenius Standard). Once you finished downloading run the installation, making sure that, when you come to the page shown in the figure, there is NOT a tick on ” use ZipGenius EXPERT mode “, otherwise you will activate the pay modality.
When starting the application will open the first page as shown. To create a compressed archive (. Zip) you need to click on ” Create New File ” and choose the file to be compressed. If you want to open a zip file, to view the files inside, just click on ” open a file ” and choose the file again. To extract a file in a zip archive and get it back into the original format, you must select ” extract files from an archive ” and select both the file and the location to save the extracted content. Finally, if you want to send a file directly by e-mail, just use the ” Send a file by e-mail “, which we will select the file to ” zip ” and send to your email contact. To investigate the use of the program, or if you need help, you can read the guide or click ” Get help ” in the ” help “. In the program, there are also buttons for quick access, at the top of the window, which let you create and open archives very quickly.
Depending on the settings chosen during the installation, it is likely that the files ” . Zip ” is already associated with ZipGenius. So just double-click the mouse on a zip file to view its contents without having to open ZipGenius and choose ” Open a file “. Finally, I remind all readers that ZipGenius not only uses the ZIP format, but allows you to create / open / extract file also in RAR, TAR, ISO, TGZ and many others.