besides WinZip, Windows XP has an inbuilt utility that will unzip files to a temporary folder when you open them. From there, you can move the files to wherever you like. there's also a free utility called 7zip, which, as its name implies, can unzip several different kinds of zipped format including .zip itself. It can be downloaded from www.whitestick.co.uk/ -- which is a very handy and useful site. ----- Original Message ----- From: "niall fitzpatrick" <nfitzrick@xxxxxxxxxx> To: <vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 9:19 PM Subject: [vip_students] Re: Zipped files Robbie I am no expert but I get zipped files from the national talking newspapers and I had to download a software called winzip 11.0. There is a free version available but I downloaded a version that I paid 29euro for it. It is fairly straight forward to unsip a file when you have this software and when I set it up it opened the zipped file into a folder called unzipped in my documents. Any time I now go to open a zipped file now the winzip software comes up on the screen and I just have to click on the next button a few times and the file is sent to my unzipped folder. I dont know if you can understand these instructions or not as I said I am no expert. Regards Niall Fitzpatrick -----Original Message----- >From: vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:vip_students-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Forde Sent: 04 June 2008 20:36 To: vip_students@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [vip_students] Zipped files Hi folks, Could somebody kindly tell me how do I go about un zipping a file? Thanks again Robbie