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Creating Compressed Windows 8 Folder<\/h4>\n

By Dave Taylor<\/p>\n

The Question:<\/strong>I\u2019m constantly sending files to colleagues and would like to compress them to save space. I know that Windows 8 has support for compressed files, but how do I use them?<\/i><\/p>\n

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Dave’s Answer: <\/strong><\/p>\n

While a number of Win8 capabilities are tricky to work with, compressed folders are a breeze. In fact, you\u2019ll be surprised how few clicks are involved in creating a special \u201ccompressed\u201d folder and dragging whatever you\u2019d like to include within. Having said that, I\u2019ll also say that this feature hasn\u2019t changed much at all in a long time and works the same in Windows 7, Vista and probably Windows ME and Windows 3.1 if you\u2019re still running that. Well\u2026. maybe not Windows 3.1. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll demonstrate how to create a compressed folder, but it\u2019s a bit hard to understand what it\u2019s doing: the system presents it as if it\u2019s just a regular data folder, but as you add things, they\u2019re automatically being compressed, and if you attach the folder to an email, for example, it\u2019s actually a file itself with the \u201c.zip\u201d suffix. Weird.<\/p>\n

Article Continued Here<\/a><\/p>\n

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This post is excerpted with permission from Dave Taylor.<\/p>\n

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