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[–] mumblerfish 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I got that from the other answers. I was just very confused why I'd have to rename them to ".zip".

I still don't get why it is "most" files.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I don't think "most" applies here. Text-based files, pdf, media files and most executeable files are not .zip.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You don't have to rename them, doing so would just make windows default to using the builtin zip extractor.

If you have 7-zip you can just right click the file you wan to explore and try to extract it.

[–] mumblerfish 1 points 1 month ago

Ah, right, that is how windows works.