How you uncompress a compressed file/folder?

I tried to extract the file and did not succeed

Exactly what type of compressed file are we talking about - what is extension?

Here's how to do it on Vista (but if 7-Zip does not work, I doubt that Vista is): http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Compress-and-uncompress-files-zip-files.

Once we know what kind of compressed file, we face, we are able to offer other suggestions.

Thank you!

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