What is winzip and what does it do...

[butterfly77]

what does unzip do...

[matcom]

1. decompresses compressed folders

:hi:

[LSK]

2. unzips zip files

[butterfly77]

5. how can I save it after it opens...

I am asking these questions for someone else, I hate showing my ignorance about this subject...

[LSK]

7. so you are starting with a zip file????

You want to open it?

[butterfly77]

8. How can you display it as an Icon...

on a desktop...

[LSK]

10. what is "it"?

[butterfly77]

11. a game..

that was downloaded. I have told the person that is asking me these questions that I believe that they have to right click to put on desk top...

[LSK]

14. so the game is in a zip file?

You would have to extract the contents of the zip file into a folder and then find the install or setup program that will install the game.

[butterfly77]

17. Thanks...

[butterfly77]

3. Now,can you put this in simpler terms...

what is decompressing and compressing

[matcom]

4. you 'zip' a file or folder to 'compress' it

you 'unzip' it to decompress

[butterfly77]

9. When you unzip ...

are the files displayed separately so that I can see each individually..

[matcom]

12. yes

[butterfly77]

16. Thanks

[LSK]

6. combining many files into one and/or making them smaller size

[ghostsofgiants]

13. I'll try to explain this is physical terms.

When a person goes to school, they have textbooks and notebooks and such all in their backpack, which makes it much more convenient to carry. When the backpack is unzipped, they take all the books out and use them.

As for compressing and decompressing, a little harder to describe that with a physical example, but compressing makes the total size of all the files smaller while they're held in the zip file, then when you unzip it, you are also decompressing the files back to their original size.

[butterfly77]

15. Thanks...