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re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?'
Sunday, November 2, 2003 at 2:45 pm
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Posted by Vern Baker (1 messages posted)

Windows XP searches will by default search through ZIP files. This will take a very long time for lots of zip files. Run this command to turn off searching through ZIP files: regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll This will turn it back on: regsvr32 zipfldr.dll I have created a couple of batch commands to quickly turn off and on this process.

On Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at 4:36 am, Darminator wrote:
>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.
>
>

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

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re: Question about 'How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?' (Jason Wheeler: Thursday, September 9, 2004 at 3:44 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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