Probably because someone deliberately or accidentally instructed Win Zip or another compression program to compress the folder.
A "zipped folder" in Windows is a compressed ZIP archive.
If you mean how do you create it, right-click on the desktop, select new- compressed (zip) folder, you can drag and drop the files into there The icon is a folder with a zip on the top
A compressed zip folder is data that has been shrunk from its original size to take less disk space.
.zip .rar .cab
Right click the jpg file and click "Send To", next click "Compressed Zip Folder", then select the save location.
A folder is a container that holds files. A zipped folder is a folder or a group of files that have been compressed by a special program such as WinZip. WinZip is a paid compression program. 7zip is a free file compression program.
Try using the Windows zip folder. Right click on any documents ->Send to-> Compressed (zipped) Folder. A compressed (zipped) folder have a horizontal zipper.hope this help.
A compressed folder can have many extensions. The usual windows extension is .zip. But .7z (for 7zip) and .rar can also be used.
You can identify it easily in two ways. 1. By its icon, It is a folder up on its side that has a zip through it. 2. By its file extension. Although sometimes these are not always visible, the extension for the average compressed file is .zip . You could also identify if it a compressed file if it says compressed zip folder in grey writing under the file name.
Right-click > Send to > Compressed Folder 7-zip or WinRAR are programs to manipulate "archived" or "compressed" files.
To retrieve the files from a compressed file you will need to unzip it using programs like WinRaR, which extracts the files into a normal folder.
If it is a zip file then right click and click extract all. If it is another type you may need a program like 7zip to uncompress it.