I downloaded PeaZip from C-net because it got a very good rating from the editor and from people who used it. I have never been good with Zip programs but according to people that have it, it is suppose to be very easy to use. I went to their on-line help page and read all the FAQs http://peazip.sourceforge.net/peazip...ive_layout_job & still don't understand it. More than half the file names they mention I have never even heard of. All I want to do with a zip program is just to compress a few BMP photos and send them by email to someone. The photos are each about 1.9 MB in size. The person I am sending them to does not have a zip program so I was going to send her the link where to download this program. But she knows exactly nothing about zip files, so I was also going to send her instructions on how to extract the files once she gets them in her email. But when I right clicked on a photo that I wanted to compress, I got a lot of options and was unsure of which one I needed. These were all the options: (in the Send To Menu)
Add to .7Z, Add to .Zip, Add to Archive, Add to Self-extracting archive, Browse path with PeaZip, Compressed (zipped) folder, Open with Command Prompt here, Open with PeaZip, Secure delete, Split File, Test Archives. Since I was not sure which one I needed, I chose the option that said, Add to .Zip. The Zip file that it made, showed no different in size for the photo than the original photo when I attached it to my email. The original was 1.8 MB and the zip file in my email showed the same size. Evidently I am not doing something right. I am sorry that I could not understand the help line, I am sure it is perfectly clear to a lot of people what it was talking about, but it is mostly Greek to me.
Thanks for any help offered,