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re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?'
Saturday, November 9, 2002 at 7:13 am
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Posted by bhtooefr (1 messages posted)

Errm... There's more of a reason to use WinZip. At my school, a fellow student requested that I get some emulators over to his laptop. Some of the ROM files wouldn't go over because they were too big. I tried putting it all in a zip, and it was STILL too big! Apparrently, WinXP doesn't have ANY spanning capability. Granted, the ZipFolders feature DOES allow us to unzip ROMs without our teacher seeing (the only good thing about it), but it plain SUCKS! BTW, can anyone convince Nico Mak (WinZip's makers) to make WinZip 6.3 SR-1 or even 7.0 for a "Floppy Sized WinZip?" I ended up having to put PKZIP 2.5 DOS on the laptop!

On Friday, October 18, 2002 at 7:40 am, Krurst wrote:

>1. You obviously haven't tried searching for files while haning many zips. It opens 
>up and searches though every one. I have over 10,000 zips...
>2. Windows has bad support for running apps from a zip (it only extracts the exe).
>3. When unzipping it seems to unzip everything to a temp dir, then move it to where 
>you want.
>
>Personally I prefer winrar over winzip, but thats just becasue it supports many 
more 
>formats.
>
>






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re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (Krurst: Friday, October 18, 2002 at 7:40 am)


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re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (xplatinum: Thursday, September 18, 2003 at 2:28 pm)