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Monday, July 8, 2002 at 6:39 pm
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Posted by Helen (1 messages posted)

I have a question about How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?:

I made the mistake of installing a zip utility when I got a new PC several months ago, not realizing that XP includes Zip support. I had some problems with the zip utility that I installed (Filzip), so I uninstalled it, and tried (not entirely successfully) to reassociate .zip files with the XP "compressed folders" application. Filzip also claimed a lot of other file extensions (.gz, .z, etc.), but I don't generally run into those, and it hasn't caused problems so far; the real problem is with .zip files. XP opens .zip files without a problem, but when I want to zip a folder by right-clicking and selecting Send To Compressed (zipped) Folder, I get an error message claiming that the "Compressed (zipped) Folders" application is not currently associated with zip files. I click "Yes" to the question "Do you want to associate Compressed (zipped) Folders with zip files," and it goes ahead and zips the folder in question. However, the same thing happens the next time, and the next, and the next. I get this same annoying error every time I try to send a folder to a .zip file. (I also tried clicking "No" to the "do you want to associate" question; it behaves the same as clicking "Yes.") I did try the fix in this article, << Type regsvr32 %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll at the [Run] prompt, and click Ok.>> This did not solve the problem; I continue to get the same error message every time I try to zip a folder. Any suggestions? I'm willing to edit my registry if I have to, but I don't know where to look for this.

Responses to this message:
I have the same problem (Matt: Monday, July 8, 2002 at 8:48 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (Hector: Tuesday, July 9, 2002 at 2:30 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (Casey: Tuesday, July 9, 2002 at 10:05 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (Henry Tseng: Tuesday, December 3, 2002 at 11:38 am)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (donna: Friday, December 27, 2002 at 9:08 am)

I FINALLY got this JAR stuff to work in XP!!! (Matt: Friday, March 14, 2003 at 5:35 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]

Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (Helen: Mon, Jul 8, 2002, 6:39 pm)

I have the same problem (Matt: Mon, Jul 8, 2002, 8:48 pm)

re: I have the same problem (triplate: Mon, Jul 8, 2002, 8:51 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (Hector: Tue, Jul 9, 2002, 2:30 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (Casey: Tue, Jul 9, 2002, 10:05 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (jrcopmpman: Sat, Oct 12, 2002, 1:55 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (Trevor: Thu, Oct 31, 2002, 1:05 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' vrp_solve (chad: Sat, Aug 23, 2003, 8:18 am)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' vrp_solve (Casey: Sat, Aug 23, 2003, 9:19 am)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' vrp_solve (chad: Sat, Aug 23, 2003, 10:17 am)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' vrp_solve (Ian: Sat, Oct 18, 2003, 9:04 am)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' vrp_solve (Nikhil Mathew: Mon, Feb 19, 2007, 12:41 am)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (mr_mcmofo: Sat, Feb 7, 2004, 12:49 am)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (Henry Tseng: Tue, Dec 3, 2002, 11:38 am)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (Darminator: Wed, Apr 30, 2003, 4:36 am)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (Vern Baker: Sun, Nov 2, 2003, 2:45 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (Jason Wheeler: Thu, Sep 9, 2004, 3:44 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (donna: Fri, Dec 27, 2002, 9:08 am)

I FINALLY got this JAR stuff to work in XP!!! (Matt: Fri, Mar 14, 2003, 5:35 pm)

re: I FINALLY got this JAR stuff to work in XP!!! (Brendan: Thu, May 20, 2004, 9:53 am)

re: I FINALLY got this JAR stuff to work in XP!!! (alex: Sun, Jul 25, 2004, 2:40 am)

re: I FINALLY got this JAR stuff to work in XP!!! (Guttmann: Sun, Nov 21, 2004, 8:38 pm)

JAR / zip, not default action (bigcactus: Sun, Dec 18, 2005, 8:25 am)

re: JAR / zip, not default action (Samurai Soul: Tue, Apr 22, 2008, 1:15 pm)

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