What software do you use to open and view your zip files? I have a friend who has Designers Gallery but it is pretty expensive.

When you say 'view', Sandy, do you mean just see what design the file is, or do you mean truly look at it to see stitch count, color changes, etc? There's a little $20 program from Sands Computing that will just show you what's in the file, if that's your intent. It was posted as an answer to a question like this a few days ago by Debbie (debleerl), she gave a link to the site. I still can't remember what it's called, hee hee hee. I have Janome's Digitizer Pro, which is way way expensive unless you want to digitize. Good luck to you, hope you find what you're looking for! Hugs, Marji

I use BuzzXplore but Buzz Tools has a cheaper one. I think I bought it from sewforless. I had to call for the price. It was over a hundred but you do get to use it for 21 days to see if you like it.

Win-Zip has worked well for me. You can get a TRIAL version and use for awhile but the price on the full program was very reasonable-I've had it for quite awhile so don't remember the exact price