Occasionally, you'll need to open several compressed files from one ZIP folder. While Windows does a fine job extracting, there are better tools to unzip.

To open a compressed archive, all you have to do is double-click on it. The archive won’t go anywhere, but you’ll get a new uncompressed folder holding all your files right next to it in Finder.

How to Open a WinZip File Without WinZip. By default, WinZip compresses files and folders into a ZIP container file, which is one of the most common compression formats available. Windows 7 ...

Windows has a built-in method that makes it very easy to open and extract files from compressed files. To open a .jar file in Windows, you can right-click on the file and select Extract all.

Open the .ratdvd file (the compressed ZIP file that contains the XVO file) and choose to ‘Keep’ the desired content with the video. Select DVD as the target and press the OK button.

To open a zip file on a Mac, just double-click it. The Archive utility automatically opens the file or folder, decompressing it and putting it in the same folder as the compressed file.

You can't click on a RAR file and open it immediately – you'll need an app to reverse the file compression so you can open the files inside. Luckily, there are numerous free apps that do this.

iOS does pretty well with handling various file types, but when it comes to compressed files you run into problems. Fortunately, with the aid of a file browsing app you'll be able to view ...

A variety of Mac applications compress files, but two simple commands native to macOS fulfill the same functionality--often more quickly and for less expense.