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.

You can both zip and unzip files in Windows 10 by highlighting the files you want and right-clicking them.

To unzip files, navigate to the zip archive in File Explorer, right-click on it, and select Extract All. Select a destination folder and click Extract to confirm your action.

How to unzip files in Windows 10 There are two ways to unzip files, depending on whether you want to extract all the ZIP file's contents, or just a specific file.

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Much like zipping, a RAR file compresses several files using WinRAR software. Here’s how to extract RAR docs and media on both Windows and macOS.

Zip is still a thing to compress files to save space or share content with others over the internet, and here's how to use the feature on Windows 11.