zip files

[GA]

I have been sent several zip files in an email. If I double click it automatically goes to the download box which is take hours. Is there a quicker way to open this zip file. I have downloaded 7-zip to open the file but I just cant seem to see into these files. I need plain and simple instructions to open these files and when I open them where should I save them .

Thanks
 Glenn

[Geek-9pm]

Any files you receive as e-mail attachments may be a hazard. You should copy the zip file to another floatation and then open it with a zip program.

WinZip is a poplar program for ZIP files. Here is a post from their site that sounds like your problem:
http://kb.winzip.com/kb/?View=entry&EntryID=101

... Outlook Express 6.0 SP1, Microsoft made a change to the way that e-mail attachments are handled. When this version of Outlook Express is installed, Outlook Express will, by default, block access to many kinds of file attachments, including Zip files...

Please read the article and come back here if you run into a snag.
Or come back here if all goes well.

[patio]

If it takes hours for a zip file to open this PC may have other issues...

[reddevilggg]

Any files you receive as e-mail attachments may be a hazard. You should copy the zip file to another floatation and then open it with a zip program.

Explaining things by spelling them wrong is not going to help people who are new to these things. There is a spell check. I know spell check will not pick up this type of mistake, but all the same.....

Any files you receive as e-mail attachments may be a hazard. You should copy the zip file to another location and then open it with a zip program.

[Salmon Trout]

Explaining things by spelling them wrong is not going to help people who are new to these things. There is a spell check. I know spell check will not pick up this type of mistake, but all the same.....

You do know he uses a speakwrite?

Here's John Hurt using an early one in 1984.

[GA]

Thanks all that replied , I am still trying to work this one out . I am trying to open the downloads in the email on another laptop. It is from a trusted source. I might add that these are videos in the zip files if that makes a difference..

[BC_Programmer]

I have been sent several zip files in an email. If I double click it automatically goes to the download box which is take hours. Is there a quicker way to open this zip file. I have downloaded 7-zip to open the file but I just cant seem to see into these files. I need plain and simple instructions to open these files and when I open them where should I save them .

Thanks
 Glenn

You have to download the file before  you can open it. There is nothing you can do about that.

[rthompson80819]

You should copy the zip file to another floatation

Actually, I've gotten to enjoy Geeks misspellings.  If you don't take it too seriously, some of them are pretty funny.  Generally, out of context, but still funny.

And I think Patio is right, it's shouldn't take hours to download most zip files that is an email attachment.  Most ISPs won't allow a file that big to be an attachment in email.

[GA]

Thanks to everyone that helped on this . The problem has now been solved .

[patio]

May we know how ? ?

[blindhelpfultech]

and then mark this as solved that way everyone does not help if you found out what was wrong

[BC_Programmer]

and then mark this as solved that way everyone does not help if you found out what was wrong

Marked as solved.