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Sunday, October 9, 2016

What is a compressed file?

compressed file is any file that contains one or more files or directory that is smaller than their original file size. These files make downloading faster easier and allow more data to be stored on a removable media. Common compressed file extensions are .ZIP, .RAR, .ARJ, .TAR.GZ, and .TGZ. Below is a larger listing of the different compressed file extensions you are likely to come across when working on a computer.









How to Open A Compressed file?

1) Download and install winrar here - Download winrar

2) after installing winrar, your compressed file will look like this:


 Note: that sometimes the file does not have .rar in the name.


3) right click the file and select, extract here. and the content will be extracted from the rar file.


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