Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about fitness, health and wearable tech Zip files are incredibly useful for sharing data over email, cloud storage and on ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. You can easily compress and extract files with your macOS, iOS, Windows, Android, or ChromeOS device by using a ...

Are you trying to open a password-protected PDF or ZIP file? Then, you already know how frustrating it can be. You try out different tools, and the result is a ...

Ever download a folder full of files, only to notice all of the documents inside are zipped shut and encrypted—basically the digital version of Fort Knox? These are examples of the ever-wonderful, yet ...

There are two common ways of squeezing large files into smaller sizes: ZIP and RAR. The ZIP format is much more common, but there are times when RAR works better, especially when the file is ...

You can zip and unzip files in Windows 10 just by right-clicking them. To zip files, right-click them and select the "Send To" option. To unzip files, right-click the ZIP and select "Extract all." ...

Windows ME/XP/2003 have built in ZIP file support. It is therefore, very easy to make and extract ZIP files using these operating systems. Right click on a file, folder, or selection of files and ...