Hints and Tips

Here are the hints and tips displayed by the “Tip of the Day” dialog box:

• The Tip of the Day dialog box is normally displayed when you start EasyZip but are not automatically opening a Zip file. You can change this option so tips are never displayed, or always displayed when EasyZip is started.
• If you turn the Tip of the Day off and later want to restore it, select Tip of the Day from the EasyZip Help pull-down menu, then select from the combo box at the bottom of the dialog box.
• EasyZip's toolbar buttons look much better if your display is in high-color mode.
  Click “Control Panel” in the Start menu's Settings entry. Double-click “Display” and select the Settings tab. Choose “High Color” mode for Color Palette (under Windows NT 4.0 select 65536).
• For a Brief Tutorial on EasyZip, select Brief Tutorial from the EasyZip Help pull-down menu.
• For answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), select Frequently Asked Questions from the EasyZip Help pull-down menu.
• To display details about the open Zip file (for example, the date the Zip file was last modified or the name of the folder containing the Zip file), click on the EasyZip status line or select Properties from the EasyZip File menu.
• You can interrupt an archive operation by clicking anywhere in the EasyZip window. This will activate the “Operation Interrupted” dialog box.
• You can quickly extract files from a Zip file by dragging the files from EasyZip to any folder or Explorer window (or even to the desktop).
• You can quickly add files to a Zip file by dragging the files from any folder or Explorer window to EasyZip.
• If you can't remember where you put your Zip files, you can use the Favorite Zip Folders feature to find them. Select Favorite Zip Folders from the EasyZip File menu.
• You can easily view files in a Zip file by dragging them to an application or a shortcut to an application.
• For quick zipping and unzipping, you can right-click on a file listed in Explorer and choose "SendTo -> EasyZip archive" or "Extract here" from Explorer's context menu.
• You can create Zip files in the Explorer: right click in the Contents pane, then select New and EasyZip File. An empty Zip file will be created in the current folders.
• Mailing your Zip files is easy! If you are using a MAPI-compatible mail system, you can mail Zip files using the Mail Archive entry in the EasyZip File menu.
• You can run your virus scanner on the files inside downloaded Zip files. Choose Virus Scan from EasyZip's Actions menu.
• If you need to send files to users who may not have an unzip utility, try “EasyZip Self-Extractor". The self-extractor makes files that unzip themselves. First create a zip file, then select Make .Exe File from the EasyZip Actions menu
• Zip files opened with EasyZip are added to the Start menu's Documents list. To quickly open Zips that you have recently worked with, select Documents from the Start menu.
• You can add selected files to a Zip directly from the Explorer with complete control over the options. RIGHT-click on any file (or selected group of files) and choose Sendto -> EasyZip archive from the context menu.