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re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?'
Sunday, May 4, 2003 at 10:39 am
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Posted by Marc (2 messages posted)

you can do "regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\cabview.dll" as well to disable XP's built in cab viewer (same thing as the zip viewer)


On Monday, April 29, 2002 at 12:06 pm, PhilHT wrote:
>The process described in "How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP
>files?" did not work for me. It was successful initially, but as soon as I re-associated
>ZIP files with WinZip, so that I can double click on them to open them, then Explorer
>went right back to treating them as folders again. Did I miss something, or is this
>"solution" really that useless?


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Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (PhilHT: Monday, April 29, 2002 at 12:06 pm)

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-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: 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)
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