Pretty cool, eh? So that’s how you create ZIP archives in Windows 10. Look at the “Ratio” column and you can see, I’ve saved 3% on each file compressed? Really? 3%? That’s pretty disappointing! Different file formats are more or less compression friendly, so it’s quite possible that the Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and other files you need to send to the client are going to compress further!Īt this point it sure looks like a regular folder, but add it to a message in something like Gmail (here shown in Microsoft Edge browser) and it magically shows up as a “.zip” file: Once you’ve packed everything into the “Compressed (zipped) Folder”, double click and you can even see how much space you’ve saved:
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Pay attention to the tip that pops up as you go: You don’t want to “Move” everything to the archive folder because you’ll probably delete it when you’re done, then you’ll have zero copies of the files and documents! Now it’s easy: just drag and drop the files, documents, photos, pictures, audio recordings, whatever else you’d like to drop into the ZIP archive: I’ll rename mine “Face Audio Recording Archive”, as shown, since I’ll be demonstrating with some audio recordings of the great Boulder a capella group Face: The “.zip” archive will show up later, so ignore that for now.
You should rename it to give it a good, mnemonic name. I mean, it’s obvious that’s a “Zip Archive”, right?Īnyway, choose that and Windows 10 creates a new folder on your desktop, but it’s a special “compressed” folder: echo on for /f 'tokens3,2,4 delims/- ' x in ('date') do set dyxz set datad Echo zipping. Open the text file and copy the below command. You can see the choice to make: Compressed (zipped) Folder. At this point, we will create a batch file to compress files.
When you do, a menu pops up and you’ll want to choose “ New“: ?įurther, you don’t need any extra programs, you don’t need to do a search, check in with Cortana or sacrifice a virtual goat at the altar of the great computer. Those pesky bosses and their pesky requests! Actually, what you’re being asked to do is surprisingly easy in Windows 10 (and earlier versions of Windows) once you know that a compressed folder and a ZIP Archive are actually the very same thing, just presented differently to make your life easier.