i cant get the 7zip files to work even after downloading the 7zip thingy to run it, so please go back to regular ones, and comment on this if you cant
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Have you ever thought that MrDrNose probably switched to .7z to force at least a tiny percentage of people to get just a bit more computer literate?
A decent archival software is an essential tool on any PC. And it so happens that on Windows, 7zip-gui is the de-facto standard for most archival operations. Learn it.
If you can't get it to work, download NanaZip from Microsoft Store. It's a 7zip fork. Click-click and you just missed an opportunity to learn how to set up file associations.
I was at a gamecon the other week and some devs were showing off their game aimed at the younger audience, there was demos setup you can just grab a controller and go.
Like 95% of the kids that came up to the demo pushed the controller aside and just kept touching the monitor. They don't understand KB+M or controller. Only touch. The devs expressions were that of horror and realization that their product is going to crash and burn because they didn't program it to be touch friendly.
So peculiar how we can go from one generation that sucks at computers, next generation is really proficient with it, then the next is garbage tier. Shows how quick technology grows.
Parents....stop letting tablets and phones raise your kids. It's supremely depressing. At least I gained useful skills with computers when I was growing up gaming because I had to learn about archivers and drivers and physical components and routers and port forwarding and all that garbage. What do your kids know? How to touch something? Cool, we have successfully returned to monke
same thing happened with boomers and gen-x with cars, those that didn't pass on their skills and interests to their kids have millenial and zoomer offspring that are mechanically illiterate, and now gen x and millennials were raised on computers and those that didn't pass it on to their kids have zoomer and gen alpha kids that are computer illiterate, that's how it goes
it is really bad shitty for the digital environment though that people are getting so bad with technology, everything is being baby-proofed and cyber security is basically dead despite getting more and more important
mate... you still have to unzip it
just because 7zip lets you browse it without unzipping it doesn't mean it's functional, you have to right click, go to 7zip, and "export to (folder name)"- do NOT use export here when unzipping stuff unless you like potentially bombing an entire directory with loose files, or you moved the zipped folder to the folder you want the contents to be in.
If you're older than 12 and can't use a computer I implore to at least try to use google to learn
the 7z file format isn't an executable, you can't run it, it's an archive, like a zip file. what you have to do is extract the files inside the 7z file into a separate folder, which can be done either directly from the right click menu's newly added 7zip section or by opening the file with something like 7zip or winrar and dragging the files out of the archive