Oka-a-a-ay......

Well, that did nothing. I did not see the word "Extract" anywhere in the drop-down once I right-clicked on the folder for that particular unzipped airplane. I saw three instances of Add, two of Zip and one of Configure. I am using WinXP Home with SP2. Hagar, you look to be using Win98 or something a little earlier, like Win2000 or Me.

It was pain like unto being eaten by a shark to get those .zips into the Unzipped folder and it hurts me to do it, but you are the Master. Deleting five or six unzipped airplanes now...

Now you have a folder we'll call "Downloads" with a subfolder we'll call "Unzipped".  The Downloads folder has a file in it we'll call Aircraft.zip.

Open aircraft.zip by double clicking on it.  A box should pop up that says WinZip - aircraft.zip, and it will have several files in it.  If you see a box that says WinZip Wizard you are in the wrong interface.  Click the box that says WinZip Classic.

What we now want to do is Extract all files to Downloads/Unzipped so they will be all by themselves in a separate folder (the Unzipped folder should be empty before we extract).

There should be a button at the top of the box that says Extract.  Click it.  If you don't see the Extract button click on Actions and a drop down menu will appear.  One of the options will be Extract.  Click it.

A second box will pop up.  Now you need to tell WinZip where to extract the files to.  Make sure the All Files and Use Folder Names boxes are checked and use the Extract To box to extract the files to Downloads/Unzipped and click on the Extract button in the second box.

The second box will close after your files have been extracted (a few seconds at most) and you can now close WinZip.  You might want to tell it to open in Classic mode next time.

Now you can navigate to your Unzipped folder, which should look look something like the pictures in the tutorials.

Hagar,

I don't know whether WinZip integrates iteslf into the shell by default or whether shell integration has to be manually activated.  It dawned on me that WinZip starts in Wizard (useless) mode until the user affirmatively activates Classic mode - that may be why rootbeer couldn't see any of the options.

I don't have the right click options that you have because I use WinRar's shell integration instead.  It has an "extract" option but it's "extract with WinRar", not "extract with WinZip".  I didn't want to confuse rb by talking about things I couldn't do myself.  Either way should work - right click, extract or open the file, extract.

Yes; I am using WinZip 9.0-SR1. Maybe this is why we are not communicating.

I had along, tiring, miserable day. I will most likely not want to fight these .zip files much tonight.

As an aside, I got abacus' Extreme Warbirds in the mail yesterday and installed it. WOW!!! The F-15 and F-16 are so much fun to fly. They make the Extra 300 look like a Radio Flyer wagon with flat tires. Combine these two jets with the abacus terrain package and it's fun, fun, fun! I had to dumb-down the controls almost to the maximum just to keep it in the air. Not for noobs...

Ping soonest. Thank you, gentlemen.

Webb, I have two discrete folders. One is FS Downloads and contains .zip files. The other is Unzipped Downloads and is empty. UD is not a sub-folder of FSD (to my knowledge). I created each one separately; I have to assume they are not inter-related.

Just looked in the FS Downloads folder. All the files that had the little C-clamp by them do not have the clamp anymore; they are denoted just by text with file size.  They look just like they did when I first downloaded them: little manila folders with zipped-up zippers on them. What happened; have we lost ground now?

This is what frustrates me so; I take a step forward, one back-- over and over, and get nowhere.

OK. Let's try & make this easy. This is all I was trying to do but I seem to have complicated matters by interfering.

First, I assume you downloaded winzip70.exe from my link. This file should be in your usual download folder wherever that might be. I download files to a folder named C:\Downloads. To install WinZip 7.0, find winzip70.exe , double-click on it & follow the instructions just like installing any other program. This should only take a few moments. Select the Classic option if & when prompted during the install process.

When WinZip 7.0 is installed all those zipfiles you downloaded should have the WinZip clamp icon. To extract them use the right-click option from my earlier reply. The files will be automatically extracted into new folders in your download folder alongside the zipfiles. They should appear in front of your eyes. There's no need to create multiple folders for unzipped files or to go searching for them. The whole process is automatic & it should take a few seconds to extract/unzip each file.

Please tell me this worked. Extracting zipfiles should be a piece of cake. This is when your problems are likely to start.