re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' Friday, December 27, 2002 at 9:08 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by donna (6 messages posted) There's a freeware you can download to disable/enable the zip built in functionality in XP. check this out: http://www.webattack.com/get/xpzipcontrol.shtml On Monday, July 8, 2002 at 6:39 pm, Helen wrote: >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. > > > Written in response to: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (Helen: Monday, July 8, 2002 at 6:39 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. 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) 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