1) Double click on the My Computer icon on your desktop.

2) Double Click on the C: drive (or the drive letter that you installed CRE 2000 on)

3) Then Click on the CRE2000 folder.

4) Then Click on the DATA2000 folder.

5) Using your right mouse button, click once on the CRE2000.MDB file and choose Add to Zip.

6) In the Add to Archive, you may either use the default directory and filename that you want to create or relocate and rename it. In this example, it will compress your CRE2000.MDB file into a smaller file called CRE2000.ZIP in the same directory (folder) as the original (CRE2000.MDB) file.

7) Once you see this box, this means that the job has been completed. It will show a green light on the bottom right of the screen to show that the file was compressed successfully.

8) Your CRE2000\DATA2000 folder should now contain these two files.