Wednesday, October 15, 2014

How do you create a compressed file in Windows 8.1?

Normally (as in Windows 7 or Windows XP) it should be real easy requring just a right click on the file you want to save as a compressed file.

It is (sometimes) not that easy in Windows 8.1. The reason being the right click produces a dud if there is something wrong. Did I say a bug? or corrupted file? Nothing happens, as in my case. The CMD.exe cannot be run in adminstrative mode since the same thing happens as a with a right click.

What do you do now?

As any sane person would do, trash your laptop/desktop/tablet/phone/xxx or Microsoft. I am kidding.

The solution I found is the following:
You need to read the next two posts to prepare yourself:
http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2014/10/how-do-you-open-file-explorer-in.html
http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2014/10/how-do-you-access-folderfile-properties.html

Having read the above open you folder which contains the file or folder you want to compress as shown:
Now you can see you can create a zip file. Click on New Item to create a zip file.


 

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