opening up winzip

bigles · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 10, 2010 Posts: 6

I have downloaded new update onto my laptop but when download is complete and I press open I get the winzip box I press agree and unzip file but I do not get the box shown in example to extract all.I get all the various elements displayed in a document file.As someone who is pretty much computer illeterate I need explained in the simplest way.I have a tom tom 540 go.

Oldboy · Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 7:04 pm Post subject: Re: opening up winzip

PaulB2005 · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 1:29 pm Post subject:

In the instructions you are told to Save the file to a known location and then

bigles · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 10, 2010 Posts: 6

Have deleted everything and started again.downloaded again and saved to hard drive.When i go to open I get the same winzip box come up and i cannot progress further.I press the agree box etc.but i cannot get the extract all box to appear.I have also done a complete scan for any viruses that may have been interfering.Last saturday when i did my first download it all went as per the instructions.

richard345 · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 7:31 pm Post subject:

This may be a red herring, but do you have a full version of WinZip installed, or an evaluation copy? This may be the cause of the Agreement that you are required to accept.

With the Full version, on double-clicking the zip file, I see a list of .ov2 and .bmp files and then I click the 'Extract' button at the top and make sure that there is a tick mark in the 'All Files' bit of the small pop up.

Hope this helps.
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Andy_P · Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 9:52 pm Post subject:

As Paul mentions above, you don't actually NEED Winzip at all if you are using a Windows PC. The PC can unzip files all by itself.
Unfortunately, it seems you have got a version of Winzip installed and it is trying to take over.

If you don't think you need it for anything specific, you could just uninstall it (Start menu, Settings, Control Panel, Add/remove programs)

Then, next time you try it, you should be back to the normal "Right click and Extract all" situation.

bigles · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 10, 2010 Posts: 6

Thanks for your suggestions guys.When I try to open downloaded database from C drive the screen starts flashing at very fast speed and at the bottom of screen it is alternating between internet explorer and something else to fast to read and I have to shut down lap top from power button.has obvoiusly done something to lap top will have to take into I.T. and get fixed I guess

PaulB2005 · Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2010 9:52 am Post subject:

Did you try to click on the other thing that was too fast to read?

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