How To Zip A Folder On Windows 7

Well be using a group of image files as an example but you can zip any type of file.

How to zip a folder on windows 7. On 7 zips sourceforge page you can find a forum bug reports and feature request systems. Right click on the file or folder and select send to and then click compress zipped folder. 7 zip works in windows 10 8 7 vista xp 2016 2012 2008 2003 2000 nt. Windows refers to a zip file as a compressed folder so the terms are interchangeable in this case.

Windows 7 will show you a copy tooltip indicating when you can drop. P7zip the port of the command line version of 7 zip to linuxposix. If its a single file or folder youd like to compress right click it and a menu will pop up. Once the file or folder is compressed a new zip folder with the same name will appear.

Link type windows description. 7 zip for 64 bit windows x64 intel 64 or amd64. You cannot incorporate a zip file within another zip file. 7 zip for 32 bit windows.

Combine several files into a single zipped folder to more easily share a group of files. How to zip and unzip files in windows using windows inbuilt program. Windows 7 will automatically add all these files to the zipped folder and you are done. First find a file or folder you want to zip.

In windows you work with zipped files and folders in the same way that you work with uncompressed files and folders. Microsoft windows 10 windows 8 windows 81 windows 7 windows vista. How to zip files. If you need the files within the second zip file to stay inside a single folder you can just extract the files and put them in their own folder as zip files retain any folders that you might have inside it.