How to install aircraft

http://www.simviation.com/acinstall.htm

I am not familiar with creating folders and moving files...

For help on creating folders and moving files try this page.  You can jump in at whatever level you're comfortable with.

http://www.helpwithpcs.com/courses/Course.htm

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That looks excellent but you might like to read my Windows Basics & Working with Windows articles first. http://www.simviation.com/lair/Windows%20Basics.htm

I wrote them specially for complete beginners like rootbeer starting out in this hobby. From the amount of feedback I've had they've helped a lot of people over the years. From some comments I see on these forums it wouldn't hurt a few of the more experienced people to read them either.

I was advised to install WinRAR in another Forum and did so. I was fooling around with it had a concise, specific description of what I was seeing in WinRAR and what I was doing, but I must have hit a wrong key because my post is gone and I don't have the heart to retype it again. Maybe tomorrow...

Now you need to unzip the files to a temporary location before cutting and pasting them into FS as explained in the tutorials.

For convenience (and a matter or personal preference) I download all files to C:\My Download Files and I unzip them to the temporary location C:\My Download Files\Unzipped.

The Winzip C clamp icon means that .zip files are associated with Winzip and you just need to click or double click on the file to open it.  You will then see a Winzip box with several files in it.

Click on "Extract" and set a location to Extract to (in my case it's always C:\My Download Files\Unzipped.

Files - check All files

Use folder names - always check this so the unzipped files will retain ther structure as described in the installation tutorial.

Click Extract in the little popup box and the files will be extracted to the temporary folder.

Follow the tutorial instructions to cut and paste the extracted files into the FS2002/aircraft/name of your new aircraft folder.  If there are special instructions follow them (commonly used for effects and the like).

AVOID THIS LIKE THE PLAGUE!  When cutting and pasting gauges (.gau or .cab files or even folders - and note that these usually need to go into the FS2002/gauges folder and not in the new aircraft folder) from your temporary folder to your FS folder DO NOT overwrite files.  If Windows tells you that "Gps.gau already exists.  Do you want to replace it?", say NO.  If you overwrite a "good" file with an unknown one you risk losing the "good" one forever - or at least until someone tells you how to restore it.

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Don't do that.  Unzip one airplane at a time or it will create a raft of confusion.