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re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?'
Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 4:36 am
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Posted by Darminator (1 messages posted)

This solution didn't work for me either. But I use winRAR anyway. My problem is this: Search for files and folders. I have around 4,000 zip files on my drive, and search looks inside all of them. So it takes around 40 minutes to do a complete search ! This is unacceptable, obviously. Is there any way to prevent search from looking inside zip files ? The obvious solution of turning the ZIPs into RARs won't work. Most of the ZIPs are game roms, and emulators don't have RAR support.

On Tuesday, December 3, 2002 at 11:38 am, Henry Tseng wrote:
>Easy just remove the zip file association completely, and it will reassociate the
>default as explorer.
>
>Here are some steps if you don't follow:
>Using Internet Explorer
>Tools < Folder Options < File Types
>Then highlight the extension ZIP and click the delete button. If this procedure
>runs correctly the icons for your zip files should change immediately. Nothing to
>it.
>
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Written in response to:: 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)

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

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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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