{"id":2723,"date":"2013-07-09T04:26:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T04:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=2723"},"modified":"2013-07-09T04:27:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T04:27:40","slug":"how-to-unzip-a-file-in-windows-8-7-vista-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/how-to-unzip-a-file-in-windows-8-7-vista-xp\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginner: How to Unzip A File in Windows 8\/7\/Vista\/XP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A .zip file may contain one or multiple files or folders that have been compressed. All versions of Windows 8\/7\/Vista\/XP natively supports .zip file format, so you can extract all files from a .zip file without using any third-party software. In this article we&#8217;ll show you how to unzip a .zip file in Windows 8, 7, Vista and XP.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Unzip A File in Windows 8\/7\/Vista\/XP?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here we&#8217;ll take the PCUnlocker program for example. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/reset-windows-password.html\" target=\"_blank\">PCUnlocker<\/a> is the most popular Windows password recovery software, which comes as a bootable ISO image file and it is distributed as a .zip format.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Once you&#8217;ve downloaded the software, right-click on the PCUnlockerEnt.zip file. Select the <strong>Extract All<\/strong> from the context menu.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/extract-all.png\" alt=\"extract-all\" width=\"600\" height=\"501\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2724\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>It will bring up a self-extraction program that is built into all versions of Windows. Just keep the setting as what it is, simply click the <strong>Extract<\/strong> button.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/select-dest-folder.png\" alt=\"select-dest-folder\" width=\"600\" height=\"439\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2725\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>After a while, the unzipped files will appear in a new window. From the picture shown as follow, we can see two files: ReadMe.txt and pcunlocker.iso. By default, Windows will not display the file extensions. To fix it, please refer to this article: <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/how-to-show-file-extensions-in-windows-8-7-vista-xp\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to Show File Extensions in Windows 8\/7\/Vista\/XP<\/a>.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/output-folder.png\" alt=\"output-folder\" width=\"600\" height=\"354\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2726\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>If you browse to the location of the PCUnlockerEnt.zip file, you&#8217;ll find that there is a newly created folder called PCUnlockerEnt, which contains all extracted files.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/overview.png\" alt=\"overview\" width=\"643\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2727\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A .zip file may contain one or multiple files or folders that have been compressed. 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In this article we&#8217;ll show you how to unzip a .zip file in Windows 8, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[1396,1395],"class_list":["post-2723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","tag-open-zip-file","tag-unzip-a-file"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2729,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions\/2729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}