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In many respects, a zipped folder behaves just like any ordinary folder.

Double-click it to see what’s inside.

If you double-click one of the files you find inside, however, Windows
opens a read-only copy of it—that is, a copy you can view, but not edit. To
make changes to a read-only copy, you must use the File → Save As

command and save it somewhere else on your hard drive first.

Note
Be sure to navigate to the desktop or Documents folder, for example, before you save your edited
document. Otherwise, Windows will save it into an invisible temporary folder, where you may
never see it again.

To decompress only some of the icons in a zipped folder, just drag them out

of the archive window; they instantly spring back to their original sizes. Or,
to decompress the entire archive, right-click its icon and choose Extract All

from the shortcut menu (or, if its window is already open, click “Extract all”
on the Ribbon’s Compressed Folder Tools/Extract tab). A dialog box asks
you to specify where you want the resulting files to wind up.

Tip

Windows no longer lets you password-protect a zipped folder, as you could in Windows XP. But
the web is teeming with zip-file utilities, many of them free, that do let you assign a password.
You might try, for example, SecureZIP Express. It’s available from this book’s “Missing CD”
page at missingmanuals.com.

Burning CDs and DVDs from the Desktop

Back in the day, people burned CDs or DVDs to back stuff up, to transfer
stuff to another computer, to mail to somebody, or to archive older files.
These days, most of that’s done over the network or the internet; it’s a rare
computer that even comes with a CD/DVD drive anymore. Windows 10 can

still burn CDs and DVDs, though—in either of two formats: ISO