{"id":14600,"date":"2018-03-07T15:54:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T20:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=14600"},"modified":"2018-03-07T15:54:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T20:54:50","slug":"how-to-zip-folders-in-windows-10-without-any-3rd-party-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/how-to-zip-folders-in-windows-10-without-any-3rd-party-software\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Zip Folders in Windows 10 Without Any 3rd-party Software"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to Zip Folders in Windows 10 Without Any 3rd-party Software<\/h1>\n

Since Windows XP, Windows has had a built-in compression (or zip) utility.\u00a0 And while the images in included in this tip were created on Windows 10, if you’re using Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 this tip pretty much works the same way.\u00a0 While not nearly as full featured as some third-party compression utilities (like 7-zip), the Windows compression (zip) utility lets you create zipped files and it’s very easy to do.<\/p>\n

You can create a zip file from folder on your computer. Here’s how:<\/p>\n

Chose any folder on your computer. For example, let’s say you have pictures you took last Christmas in a folder in your Pictures folder. You can zip up your Christmas pictures folder this way:<\/p>\n

Right-click on the folder you want to zip<\/p>\n

Click on “Send to” then choose “Compressed (zipped) folder” from the menu which appears”. That’s it. The zipped file\/folder will be created in the same location where original files\/folders are located.<\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/p>\n

Below you’ll see I created 3 test folders.\u00a0 I added some pictures to each folder. Then for this tip, I compressed (zipped) the folder I called Test Folder 3. See? The original folder remains untouched, but all the files in Test Folder 3 are zipped inside the Test Foler3 zipped file.<\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/p>\n

You can rename your compressed folder the same way you rename any other folder.<\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/p>\n

Notice above, renamed Test Folder3.zip to Wallpaper-2018.zip.<\/p>\n

If you forgot to add some pictures to the folder before you zipped it, no problem.\u00a0Here’s how to add files to a zipped file.<\/p>\n

Just drag and drop any file that you want to add to the zipped file and it will automatically be included in the zip file.<\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/p>\n

When you drag and drop a file to the zip file,\u00a0it will be added to the zip file without changing or removing the original file.<\/p>\n

Now you know how create compressed (zip) files in Windows 10 without using any 3rd-party software.<\/p>\n

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How to Zip Folders in Windows 10 Without Any 3rd-party Software Since Windows XP, Windows has had a built-in compression (or zip) utility.\u00a0 And while the images in included in this tip were created on Windows 10, if you’re using Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 this tip pretty much works the same way.\u00a0 While not nearly as full\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14601,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14600\/revisions\/14601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}