Downloading and unzipping .zip files in Windows. 1. Click on the name of the zip file to download it. 2. When the "File Download" dialogue-box comes up, you may navigate to a suitable location on your hard disk where you want the zip file to be stored. Choose an appropriate folder, preferrably an empty one. Remember where the folder is. 3. After the download is complete, use Windows explorer to navigate to the folder in which the zip file is stored. At this point, if the zip file is in a folder containing other files, or if it is not in a suitable location on your disk, you should create a new, empty folder for it in a suitable location and move the zip file to the new folder. 4. Double-click on the zip file to open it with whatever unzipping tool you have installed on your system. If you are using Windows XP or Vista, you should not need any third-party programs for this. 5. After the contents of the zip file have been extracted, you can delete the original zip file. To return to the previous browser-window, close down this window or click the icon for the previous browser-window on the task-bar.