To compress files and folders with NTFS on Windows 11, use these steps: Open File Explorer. Open the folder to store the files with compression. Click the New button and select the Folder option.

You can unzip, extract & use TAR, .TAR.GZ, .TGZ or .GZ. files using the command line, free file extraction software or an online tool. We cover all 3 methods!

Earlier this year, we reported on Microsoft expanding its compression support in Windows 11 to include native RAR, 7-Zip, and other file formats that aren't your basic ZIP files. For those that ...

Learn how to show encrypted and compressed file and folder names in color in Windows 11/10. Change folder name color from black to green and blue.

This guide shows you how to extract .tar.gz files on Windows 10 and Windows 11 using a command prompt or free open source app to help with ...

Forget third-party utilities: Windows has a built-in tool for "zipping" a batch of files. Here's how to use it.

File compression using the ZIP format is built into Windows 10. In this guide, we show how to zip a file in Windows 10 in three ways and how to unzip a file.

ZIP files hold several compressed files inside, reducing how much space they take on your hard drive. They need to be unzipped to use the files, though. Here's how to do it.

Windows 11 has a new preview out and it does some useful – albeit long-awaited – work in terms of accelerating the rate at which files are pulled out of ZIPs within File Explorer, plus there ...

Windows Windows supports creating compressed files via PowerShell from v5.0+, however, while it natively supports ZIP creation it does not support encryption and has a file limit of just 2GB.