
This is the main reason why ZIP enjoys native Windows support while others require special third-party applications to open them. In fact, there are dozens of such archive file formats out there, such as RAR, TAR, 7z, etc, and many of them have their own proprietorship. Although the ZIP file format was made public in 1989, it was made a part of the software utilities by Microsoft starting with Windows 7.īut ZIP isn’t the only popular archive file format out there.

ZIP is a very common file archive format that allows users to compress large files together and share them as a single file of lowered size without any data loss.

FIX: “Extract All” option missing in the ZIP right-click menu.Method 7: Using free archive extractors online.Method 6: Using third-party applications (7-Zip).Method 3: From the File Explorer (Extract specific files).Method 2: From the File Explorer toolbar menu.

