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 Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
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.
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>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
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