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 Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum 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. > > Written in response to: 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) Responses to this message: 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) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (PhilHT: Mon, Apr 29, 2002, 12:06 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (Alex: Mon, Apr 29, 2002, 12:17 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (Bob: Wed, Jun 12, 2002, 9:27 am) re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (Krurst: Fri, Oct 18, 2002, 7:40 am) re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (bhtooefr: Sat, Nov 9, 2002, 7:13 am) re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (xplatinum: Thu, Sep 18, 2003, 2:28 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (txGreg: Tue, Feb 10, 2004, 8:45 am) re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (bugmenott: Tue, Nov 11, 2008, 8:50 am) re: registry edit (Mike: Sun, Nov 10, 2002, 2:59 am) re: registry edit (Fred: Tue, Dec 10, 2002, 11:57 am) XP 'Zip' fix doesn't work (Mike: Sun, Nov 10, 2002, 2:52 am) re: XP 'Zip' fix doesn't work (chester: Wed, Jan 1, 2003, 12:56 am) re: XP 'Zip' fix doesn't work (Chris: Tue, Apr 22, 2003, 6:31 pm) re: XP 'Zip' fix doesn't work (boscado: Mon, Aug 4, 2003, 10:41 am) re: XP 'Zip' fix doesn't work (Alvaro Pompeia: Thu, Mar 11, 2004, 5:51 am) re: XP 'Zip' fix doesn't work (CyberZ74: Fri, Nov 19, 2004, 12:22 pm) it DOES work - but extra steps required (Mike: Sun, Nov 10, 2002, 12:25 pm) re: it DOES work - but extra steps required (Fallen Angel: Wed, Dec 4, 2002, 11:19 am) re: it DOES work - but extra steps required (Joe: Mon, Dec 16, 2002, 12:10 pm) re: it DOES work - but extra steps required (Jon: Mon, Jan 27, 2003, 8:14 pm) Apply this tip forever... (Ragnorok: Fri, Aug 27, 2004, 2:59 pm) re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (Marc: Sun, May 4, 2003, 10:39 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum