Recent versions of Windows have an inbuilt ability to handle file compression (commonly known as Zipping). You can compress one or more files by right-clicking its icon and choosing Send To, Compressed Folder. Equally, you can extract a .zip file archive with just a right-click.

However, Windows can't handle all of the well-known compression formats so the extraction facility sometimes fails. For example, if you download a file in .GZ format and attempt to decompress it from Windows, even Windows 10, it won't work.

For such tasks, I use a well-known compression tool called 7Zip, which was last updated just a few days ago. It is truly a wonderful product and is only around 1 MB to download. The file is malware-free according to VirusTotal and Web of Trust. Highly recommended.  Read More