Re: Help! Windows XP won't unzip the .tar.tar or .tar.gz files!

[Peter Kryszkiewicz]

The tar.gz extension should have done it for you. It's a pretty old, established way to archive files (on Unix Platforms) And there are a few archiving utilities for Windows platforms that will recognize this too (Winzip is the most hi-profile of those).   If you've used your XP desktop Help and can't find the answer there, just downloading Winzip is the least painful way of solving your problem. Or do a quick search on your favourite search engine like I did just now; look at these links; http://www.gzip.org/ (check the FAQ section)   and a list of freeware, shareware and commercial archivers for Windows;   http://www.simtel.net/pub/winxp/compress/