If you need to email large files, back up large files, or you just have way to much stuff taking up space on your hard drive, let me introduce you to WinZip. It is a file archive and compressor application for Microsoft Windows users. It can take one file, or several files, and compress them together, or “zip” them, into a .zip file. The size of the resulting .zip file is smaller than the sum of the original file sizes.
If you want to compress old files you hardly ever use you can “zip” them up into a .zip file and save space on your hard drive. When attaching a file to an email that is too large for the email server to handle you can compress it into a smaller .zip file and then send. Digital Photos can be reduced in size by 20 to 25% without losing image quality, so those old holiday pics you never want to lose, but are bogging down your system can be compressed too!
All McCombs computers have Winzip 8.1 installed.
To create a Zip File:
1. Right click a file and then select Add to Zip File…This will create a new .zip file in the same location as the file you are compressing and open a new .zip file window.
2. You can rename your .zip file (it defaults to the selected file name) and click Add.
3. The new .zip can be attached it to your email as you would any other file.
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