Occasionally, you'll need to open several compressed files from one ZIP folder. While Windows does a fine job extracting, there are better tools to unzip.

You can unzip, extract & use TAR, .TAR.GZ, .TGZ or .GZ. files using the command line, free file extraction software or an online tool. We cover all 3 methods!

Navigate to the folder that contains the executable file of the tool that you use to extract ZIP files. Most applications are installed in the "Program Files" folder on the system drive by default.

Luckily, since ZIP files are so common, they're incredibly easy to unzip. Here's how to unzip files on nearly any device, whether it be a computer, tablet, or smartphone.

Learn how to zip & unzip files and folders to save storage on the hard drive of Windows 11/10 computer, using built-in ZIP functionality.

You can both zip and unzip files in Windows 10 by highlighting the files you want and right-clicking them.

Windows ME/XP/2003 have built in ZIP file support. It is therefore, very easy to make and extract ZIP files using these operating systems.

Windows 95/98/2000 does not have have built in ZIP file support. It is therefore necessary to use a 3rd party software to create and extract ZIP files. I will base this tutorial on a popular Zip ...