7-Zip Tutorial 2 – Unpacking files
Quick links:-
Tutorial 1 – Installation
Tutorial 3 – Making your own zip files
7-Zip Homepage
Our second free zip tutorial focuses on unpacking or extracting files from an archive. This is how you get files out of zip, rar or 7zip compressed archives. If you are not sure what any of this means, please read our guide to working with files in Windows.
To start the video presentation, please click on the picture below.
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Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 users – Additional notes
Windows Vista users should not try to look in the “documents and settings” folder when trying to find their desktop folder. Instead, look in the “users” folder. For your reference, the correct locations are :-
Windows 2000/XP – C:/documents and settings/(your user name)/desktop
Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8 – C:/Users(your user name)/desktop
This assumes Windows is installed on your C: drive, which is the most common drive for Windows to be installed on. Not sure what your user name is? Click on the start menu and look at the top, your username is next to your picture.
Our next tutorial will show you how you can use 7-Zip to create your own free zip files for sending across the internet to friends, family or work colleagues.
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