A self-extracting archive is useful; it allows you to extract archives without additional software. All you have to do is double-click the archive and it will automatically extract the files within.

If you receive The Extraction Operation was not Completed, Error 0x8096002A: No error description available message while decompressing or extracting an archive on ...

For many years, Phil Katz’s archive creation, zip, has been one of the most popular file archiving formats. Sun has adopted the zip format as the basis for the Java Archive (JAR). Sun has extended the ...