hey guys in this video i'm going to show
you how you can use 7-zip on your
windows 11 operating system
so first of all what is 7-zip
7-zip is a free and open-source file
archiver which means it will
allow you to compress or uncompress your
files or folders
in different
compression formats right so let's see
how we can download and install it so
first of all open your favorite browser
and search for 7-zip and the first link
which will appear here will be from 7
hyphen zip dot org so i'm going to just
click on this link
and straight away you will see the
downloads option
now if you are using windows 11 you need
the 64-bit version of windows 11
so we are going to just click on the
first link here which says 64-bit so i'm
going to just click on the download
option which is going to start the
download of this exe file so once it's
downloaded just click on the exe file
and i'm going to minimize the browser
first of all you will see this warning
so just click on yes
and then the setup window will start for
7-zip
so this will be the default location
where 7-zip will be installed so if you
are ok with it just
leave it as default and then click on
install and 7zip will be installed
really fast right
so you just need to wait for few seconds
and you can see this message 7zip is
installed once you see this message you
can close this window so now once 7zip
is installed you can use 7zip to
compress or uncompress files or folders
on your windows 11 operating system so
let me show you how you can use it
so you can see i have this folder and
inside this folder i have
one
file but you can have any number of
files in your folders
and then let's say i want to compress
this file into a zip file right so i can
just right click
on the file
and in the new windows 11 operating
system you will not see 7-zip option
directly you just need to click on show
more options
and then you will see this 7-zip option
here right so in order to archive this
file into zip you can just click on this
option add to data.zip data is the name
of my folder that's why it's named data
and the extension would be zip
if you want to
compress this file into
different format which is 7z format you
can choose this option but for now i
will create a zip file so i will just
click on add to data.zip
it's going to create a zip file you can
see data.zip file is created here right
now let me delete this folder and i will
show you how you can uncompress this zip
file using 7-zip so the procedure is
straightforward right click on the zip
file
and then click on show more options and
then select 7-zip
and then there are many options here
right
so for extracting this zip file into the
same folder you just need to click on
extract here so when i click on extract
here
the
folder will be extracted in the same
folder in which your zip file is present
let me delete it once again
and now let me show you if you want to
extract it somewhere else how you can do
it so right click once again show more
options
7-zip and then click on extract files
and this time
it's going to open this kind of window
so from here
you can
choose the location you can just click
on these three dots button
and then let's say i want to just
extract this folder on my desktop so i
can do that select this and then i can
click on ok
and you can see the path is changed to
desktop let me minimize this window so
you can see the extraction here when i
click on ok
then this data folder is extracted in my
desktop
right
so this is how you can extract uh the
zip file or any other
compressed file
in different folders right you also have
different options
using 7-zip you can see
so you can
play with all these options
and
see what all these options do
and the description is straightforward
so open archive open
archive once again you can see different
options so you can use all these options
with your zip file or your normal
folders right
so this is how you can download and
install 7-zip on your windows 11
operating system i hope you enjoyed this
video and i will see you in the next
video