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re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?'
Thursday, September 18, 2003 at 2:28 pm
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Posted by xplatinum (1 messages posted)

WinZIP ? What is this winzip talking all about. WinRAR - http://www.rarlab.com WinRAR provides complete support for RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO archives


On Saturday, November 9, 2002 at 7:13 am, bhtooefr wrote:
>Errm... There's more of a reason to use WinZip. At my school, a fellow student requested
>that I get some emulators over to his laptop. Some of the ROM files wouldn't go over
>because they were too big. I tried putting it all in a zip, and it was STILL
>too big! Apparrently, WinXP doesn't have ANY spanning capability. Granted, the ZipFolders
>feature DOES allow us to unzip ROMs without our teacher seeing (the only good thing
>about it), but it plain SUCKS! BTW, can anyone convince Nico Mak (WinZip's makers)
>to make WinZip 6.3 SR-1 or even 7.0 for a "Floppy Sized WinZip?" I ended up having
>to put PKZIP 2.5 DOS on the laptop!
>
>


Written in response to:
re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (bhtooefr: Saturday, November 9, 2002 at 7:13 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (txGreg: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 at 8:45 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-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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