Compaq Presario Internet PC - Manual (Page 131)

M Y P RESARIO —G ETTING S TARTED AND B EYOND G LOSSARY 17
zipped file A file that has been squeezed
to a smaller size by compression software,
such as WinZip, developed by Niko Max
Computing. An archive (group of related
files that are zipped together) can be
transmitted as an e-mail attachment much
faster than individual files. An archive
takes up less storage space on your disk. It
can be identified by the file extension .zip.
An archive contains a self-extracting
program with the file extension .exe (for
executable). Double-click the executable
file, and a wizard guides you through the
process of unzipping the files. See file
extension and wizard.