zip downloads

[sadie]

I have downloaded many items the ones with pdf and rtf and doc are ok.



The zips don't work when I try to open. It asks me if I want to use windows to convert and I click yes but they look like greek. I have Windows XP and microsoft word and adobe.



What am I supposed to do to be able to read these?

Thanks for the help

[sadie]

Sorry,



I am also having trouble with most of the pdf documents too.



I pick download and save.

[Akira]

Sadie,



I do not run Windows XP as it still has too many bugs for my liking. But, doesn't it come with a built-in zip file compression / decompression utility?



I would try an aftermarket compressor / decompressor such as:



WinZip - get it here

WinRar - get it here

WinAce - get it here



any of these will decompress a zip file.



In reference to your pdf problems...



In the case of Windows 2000 (what I use), it is necessary to get several updates from Microsoft's website just to get Adobe Acrobat to work !



Windows XP just recently came out with Service Pack 2. Perhaps just an update from Mcrosoft is all you need?



As a last resort, you may need an update from Adobe...

if a pdf file was created with the latest version of Acrobat, the earlier version probably won't open it...



Hope this helps,

Akira

[sadie]

Akira,



Thanks for the info. I have adobe and it works just not on all of the downloads only on some.



My zip files unzip and open they just don't convert so I can read them.