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re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' vrp_solve
Saturday, August 23, 2003 at 8:18 am
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Posted by chad (37 messages posted)


This is a great thing, it actually worked for me, it disabled windows zip folder capability, which makes folders with MANY zip files open up a lot faster. But the only problem this regfix also disables winzip 8.1 and now when i open up zip folders it's using the windows crapy zip interface. Does anyone know how to disabled the windows zip folder garbage and still keep winzip as your default archiver?


On Tuesday, July 9, 2002 at 10:05 pm, Casey wrote:
>Hi, You can disable the XP zip folder capability by executing:
>
>regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll
>
>You can re-enable it by running:
>
>regsvr32 zipfldr.dll
>
>If this fails you may have to try sfc/scannow or the repair console From the XP 
cd 
>boot. Case
>




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re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (Casey: Tuesday, July 9, 2002 at 10:05 pm)

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*re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' vrp_solve (Casey: Saturday, August 23, 2003 at 9:19 am)

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*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)
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