Ever received a zipped file or needed to send a zipped file in your PC or Mac and been told you need to buy a compressing program like Winzip? In most cases, you don’t need to buy any program. In most cases, when you receive a zipped file on a PC or Mac you can double click or click respectively and follow the instructions to get the compressed files.
If someone has requested you send them a zipped file in email or something, you don’t need to buy any software. Here is what you do:
On a PC, create a folder and put the files needed in it, then right click, select "send to," and finally "compresses (zipped) folder." This creates a zipped file you can use to send as an email attachment. If you need to add a password in order to open the zipped file you need to buy software and if you receive a file compressed by a proprietary program you may need to buy software.
In a Mac, the process is almost the same although the version of OSX might make the wording different. Ok… Create a file folder, then put the files in it. Then you need to do the same as a right click in Windows. Either hit "ctrl" and then click the mighty mouse on the folder or ditch the dumb Apple mouse and get a good windows mouse so you can right click. If you are using Leopard, then after right clicking you want to select "compress." Older versions of Mac OS’s may call this archive etc.