Windows users shouldn't badge - you're still using windows, you know
Ok, zip is a common file format, even Mickeysoft supports the standard (yet...)
Your problem is most probably that you didn't download a zip file, but a html page (i.e. you rightclicked -> "save as" the link, while the link itself didn't point a zip file, but a server script that would than call the zip file and do some other stuff like access logging, check for permissions etc.)
get a nice tool like a hexeditor and open the "zipfile" with it, if it contains readable text like "<html><body><head><title></title></head></body></html>" you ran into the above mentioned trap
if you've got a tool like *nix "file" you could simply use it to ask for the files real content type (but i don't know if there's type for Windows, maybewith mingw?)
but format c: is a nice idea, then get a usefull OS (BSD, Linux, or just buy a Mac)
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