Compressing a file or folder

Compressed files are useful for making large amounts of memory space available to you by making the others smaller, this can also be useful when sending or receiving a file via the internet e.g. email or online download websites, it will take less time to download but will also have to be unzipped once it is downloaded.

To compress a file you should right click on the file you wish to compress and select send to compressed (zipped) folder.This is how your compressed file should look, it will be a lot smaller in memory and have a zip extension added on to the end of it.