7 Share or save
In a nice touch, Windows 10 enables you to do things with
your photo without having to extract and re-open it: the toolbar
along the top has the usual editing options, and you can use the
Add To icon to send the photograph to a new photo album. You
can also use the share icon – the box with an arrow leaping out of
it – to send the image to an app or person.
8 Extract it all
You can extract all of the files a zip contains by opening it
and clicking on Extract All. By default, Windows will create a new
folder with the same name as the zip, so for example Daisy.zip on
your desktop would be extractedtoa new desktop folder called
Daisy, but you can choose an existingfolder instead – important if
you’re opening it from a USB drive.QQ5
Extracting is easy
The opposite of zipping isn’t called unzipping, or at least it
isn’t in Windows: it’s extracting. Windows enables you to see the
contents of a zipped folder by double-clicking on it, and if you
look at the top of the window it has specific tools for extracting to
commonly used folders such as Documents, Pictures, Music and
so on. These extract the selected files to the appropriate place.
3 Name your folder
You should now see a new, zipped folder in the same place
as the file(s) you were zipping. Windows automatically names it
but you can easily rename it by typing your own descriptive name
in the highlighted field. You can now interact with your zipped
folder just as you would with a normal file: you can cut and paste,
drag it to a different location or into a Mail message, and so on.
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Take a look
Sometimes you don’t want to extract an entire folder, but
you need to see what file it is that you actually want to use. No
problem. In Windows 10 you can simply double-click on a file
within a zipped folder to see what it is, so for example here we’ve
double-clicked on one of the image files so that we can see what
it is. The photo opens just like any other photo.4 Check the size
Right-click over your zip folder to find out how big it is. This
is important because some email services have limits on how big
file attachments can be, for example Gmail accounts have a 25MB
limit. As you can see, our Zip would be too big to send via Gmail
– but there are ways around that, as we explain in the Top Tip. It’s
not a problem here, though, because we’re not emailing ours.Explore
Zip and unzip
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