Many of you have worked with Zip files and know the answer to our title question. But if you need to know all about unzipping files in Windows 7 and Windows XP, the following guide will be more than clarifying.

How do you open a zipped file?

Download and install WinZip

As you might have guessed, the zipped adjective comes from the best archiving and unarchiving tool WinZip. So unzipping will naturally start with downloading and installing this awesome tool by clicking on the big button below. WinZip is the best tool for unzipping simply because it’s fast, it can handle multiple archives at the same time and it supports more than 24 archive file types, including ZIP, ZIPX, TAR, TAR GZ, RAR, 7Z, GZ, IMG, GZIP, GZ, and many others, even ISO images. This tool is also great because it comes with a lot of other interesting features like the 128-bit and 256-bit AES encryption or the PDF to Word and Word to PDF conversion. You can try WinZip before buying so it will have enough time to amaze you.

Extract the archive from the contextual menu

Extract the archive from WinZip

This is our guide on how to unzip files in Windows 7 / Windows XP. It’s pretty simple, right? You can leave us a comment below if you’ve had any problems during the process.

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