to extract compressed files you need winrar or another program then you can either with right click and select extract here or you can click over the compressed file and inside winrar select extract to... and select where you want the files
The new version of winzip allows people to uncompress more file types. These file types include rar, zip, zipx, tar. There are more files that winzip will unzip. It will not unzip all file types.
Right click the file, select properties, click advanced, uncheck Compress contents to save disk space.
Yes, Windows should automatically uncompress the file when you attempt the move the file somewhere else.
A Ziipped (.zip) file is something that has been compressed to make it smaller to store or faster to transmit over the Internet. To uncompress a zip file with most modern operating systems simply requires the file to be double clicked. This will uncompress the original content which is usually saved next to its zipped version.
Sure. There are many tools that can open up (uncompress) a gz file in Windows. For example, Total Commander (http://www.ghisler.com) is a nice shareware file manager for Windows that includes this ability.
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.
The disadvantage of multiple file compression is that you need to decompress everything, even if you only need one file.
Some operating systems such as Windows XP include uncompress capabilities?
uncompress, expand, extend, stretch, increase
uncompress it? but it will take very long time
If you mean the type of file it is called the file extension.
Excel file is called a .xls file. Or a spreadsheet file.