i need winzip or something like it

iwanttosave_2

Hi, i fed up of waiting ages to upload pictures for emails and need a free version of winzip but don't know which are any good.

Also how do i do zip them when i have downloaded it?

espresso

:think: Not enough information supplied! Perhaps you simply need to reduce the size or the quality of your pictures, using a program like Irfanview.

jpg files are already compressed, so zipping them would not achieve much!

:wave:

wolfman

Yep as mentioned above jpg is a compressed format.

On the note of a zip application, I use TugZip. I switched from using WinRar to it and it's been great. It's also free.

chuckles1066

7-Zip

free and it handles all types of compressed files........4.23 is the latest stable version

LSM_2

winrar & winzip are good. However, XP has built in zip support (slower)

rich_jtg

chuckles1066 wrote:

7-Zip

free and it handles all types of compressed files........4.23 is the latest stable version

Another vote here for 7zip.

espresso

You seem to be missing the point here!

What is the point trying to compress files that are already compressed?

:rotfl:

wolfman

True.

Zipping jpeg's will make little or no difference.

LSM_2

who said there all jpegs? have I missed something? & Yes JPGs are compressed. You could edit jpeg in photoshop & make the compression higher...

ABH_3

iwanttosave wrote:

Hi, i fed up of waiting ages to upload pictures for emails and need a free version of winzip but don't know which are any good.

Also how do i do zip them when i have downloaded it?

For what it's worth, it maybe worth your while defining exactly what you mean by "upload pictures for emails" as the replies you have received so far seem to have latched onto .jpg's. But if you aren't using this particular image type, the answers so far aren't going to benefit you.

You would be better off explaining what the pictures are ie family photos from a camera? Scanned images? and the files extension ie: the bit at the end of the file ".bmp", ".jpg", ".png" etc etc.

HTH

jackbremer

you're called iwanttosave... more like iwanttoaskquestions

Use WinRAR - http://www.rarlab.com/ - @ $29.95
RAR files are far superior to zips - more secure, reliable, faster and more compressed - i.e. smaller resulting filesizes.

But everyone is right, compressing already highly compressed files such as JPEG or MP3 is not effective - it just serves as a neat way to send lots of files as one.

Alternatively just use Windows XP's built in file compression as mentioned above.