"BB" said in news:
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How do I compress files in a zip folder with XP? Other versions of
Windows allow you to do this with Explorer or My Computer. When I
checked "help," a note said this feature was not available on 64 bit
XP. What does that mean?
In Explorer when you select one or more files or folders, and after
right-clicking on them, do you see a Send To -> Compressed Folder menu
entry?
I did see the "The Compressed (zipped) Folders feature is not available on
Windows XP 64-Bit Edition." comment in the Help. I'm using Windows XP. You
don't mention what you are using. So are you really using Windows XP 64-bit
version (and the hardware to support it)? If so, remember it's called the
bleeding edge because you'll get your fingers cut on it. The zip
compression support in Windows XP (non-64 bit) is minimal, anyway, with very
few features. You cannot select the compression ration, to password protect
the file, and there are probably plenty of other restrictions. If you
really want a better file compression archival tool then get a real zip
program.
UltimateZip is free but hasn't seen any development since March 2002. The
maker's web site (
www.ultimatezip.com) in their FAQs notes there are sponser
ads in the freebie version (but another user states that they don't see
anything other than a flash screen when loading the program). UltimateZip
is a clone of WinZip, and originally was publicware. WinZip 8 is also
available but you're expected to pay for it. It has been at version 8 for a
very long time, like maybe 2 years (and version 9 has been in "beta" for
nearly as long). From what I hear, it appears WinZip is a defunct product
(it works okay but there's no work being done on it). I currently use PKZip
although I don't like its behavior for compressing e-mail attachments (N
attachments gets merged into 1 .zip file that has a filename of the first
attachment) so I still use QuickView Plus' Outlook integration to provide a
separate .zip file for each attachment and only compress the attachments
past a specified threshold. I tried ZipMagic a couple years ago. Don't
remember who owned it at that time but it has changed hands to Ontrack which
then sold it to Aladdin (who also sells StuffIt).
Microsoft provides a lot of crippled or minimalized 3rd party tools with its
operating systems. Its defrag tool is from Diskeeper but won't allow you to
schedule defrags like Diskeeper will. If you want more than the simplistic
utility that Microsoft has incorporated in their OS, you're expected to go
buy a more powerful version of the product or a different product. I'm
pretty sure that professionals making movies really don't much rely on
MovieMaker that comes in Windows XP. There is one class of user that wants
Microsoft to include every possible full-featured software function and
product in their one OS product. Then there are those that consider all
this as bloatware since they know they won't want the simplistic auxiliary
or superfluous software that gets crammed into the Windows product. And
there are those that think such minimal, simplistic, under featured tools
included in Windows represents a real threat against the producer's of
full-featured powerful versions of those tools. Yeah, right.
