On my last computer, I remember I'd downloaded Winzip for free, and whenever I wanted to download a font, Winzip would automatically come on and extract it (I think that's the term)
Well, now that I have this new computer (running on Vista), most of my fonts aren't here, and I'm having to find and download them. But, since I don't have an unzipping program, I installed winzip 12.0 by way of their 45 day free trial. It was so difficult to understand, that I couldn't figure out how to do the simple task I wanted to do. So, I uninstalled.
Anyone know of either an easier-to-use/understand program that would help me?
or
Anyone want to tackle "winzip for dummies" so I can understand how to unzip the fonts I want on my computer?

Thank you!!

7zip is really good and free

ZipGenius and IZarc are free archive utilities with friendly user interfaces and support for many different archive formats. The interface to 7-zip is not as pretty or friendly as the previous two, but it's still better than what is built in to Windows. All of these are freeware! If someone can justify the price of WinZip, I would like to hear how.

http://zipgenius.it/eng/index.php
http://www.izarc.org/
http://www.7-zip.org/

this is the only link i have at download.com http://www.download.com/7-Zip/.....d=10780224

That's the easy part. What do you do when you try to extract and "Internet Explorer has stopped working" pops up. That's every time for two of my subcontractors files. Then there's the one file that says "files is corrupted", it's not. All I know is winzip opens everything, every time, no problems.

I guess I was lucky in the past. I never had such a mess.

ScottW, thanks again. I rarely need third party software either. I've got a couple of new hot shot subs who uses, I don't even know what, but I have to open their files anyway:) If ZipGenius works for you, that's good enough for me!

okay, guys, I'm still confused - which is easy?
PS - techgranny, I'm not restoring - all my fonts were lost when my computer died, so I'm having to re-find them on the internet and download each one.

whs - (I don't use internet explorer)

I'm sorry for asking such simple questions, but I really don't understand computers very well. Thank you for your patience with me!

You learn something new everyday...I thought windows explorer WAS internet explorer! sheesh!

Warning: another really dumb question: What is Command Prompt and how do I open it as an administrator?

I think I'm probably out of lucky, since I'm on a new computer, and the only thing I have left from my old one was all my old documents and photos. I didn't realize the font issue till I got into my docs and saw they'd reverted back to Verona or arial. ick! (I do a lot of paper craft stuff, so this was a pretty bad hit for me)

jakade, I can't help you with the other stuff, but granny knows fonts. I didn't lose all my fonts, only the ones I use:) I had to track them down on the internet and download them one by one. The link I posted is where I found all of them! (helps to know the names of the fonts you use)