hey everyone how's it going my name's
Adam repos box and welcome back to
another tutorial this is kind of a
Windows 10 tips tutorial but it also
applies to pretty much anything else
this tutorial is on how to open up zip
files RAR files dot 7z files etc and
this is specifically stemming from my
tutorial on how to emulate game boy
bands gamed someone's like okay well I
downloaded the ROM for example I
downloaded from mu paradise Pokemon
emerald and it's in a zip file instead
of a GBA file well a zip file is simply
an archive it is just basically a sealed
up version of the file to keep it from
corrupting to keep it from taking up as
much space as much space every now and
then zip files and seven zip files and
things like that can compare it's it's
considered file compression so it can
actually make the file smaller and it
keeps them from being corrupted quite as
much and you can password protect it and
things like that and like I said it does
come in a few different formats there's
zip there's dot rar there's dot 7z like
for this music file I have here and they
all open up pretty much the same way and
the program I'm going to point you
towards to use for this is called 7-zip
and you get it from 7-zip org not 7-zip
com that is a malware site but I will
post a link to it in the description
below just go to that link and download
the Installer if you have 32-bit or
64-bit pick that one and if you don't
know which one to pick just pick 32-bit
and you'll be okay now by default your
once you install it your computer may
still not open it up in 7-zip where your
what you're going to want to do is find
your zip file right click it go to
properties and then where it says opens
with it might just say Windows Explorer
or some other program click Change and
for the first time that you do this
7-zip file manager may not show up click
more apps if it doesn't show up in this
list either then go to look for another
app on this PC if you downloaded the
32-bit it may be in Program Files x86 if
you have that folder but if you download
64-bit it will just be in Program Files
7-zip and you want the 7-zip FM exe
that's 7-zip file manager that'll be
what actually opens up your file 7z G
will not work you want 7zf
Exe double-click it or click OK and then
click apply and ok and then every time
you open up double click a zip file it
will open up in 7-zip and here you have
the GBA file now from this point you can
either drag it out into a folder to
extract it or you can specifically click
extract and tell it where to go
also if you know you know that there's
only one file in there or what have you
you can right-click it go to 7-zip and
do a couple things with that and you can
also use this program to create zip
7-zip rar etc or archives to store your
files in so pretty useful to tool
totally open source totally free very
strong project that gets very very a
project that gets my very strong
recommendation highly recommend you
check it out link to it will be in the
description below thank you so much for
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