re: I FINALLY got this JAR stuff to work in XP!!! Sunday, July 25, 2004 at 2:40 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by alex (1 messages posted) Here is an easier way: 1. rename .zip to .zip_ 2. export .zip menu>file>export 3. rename .jar to .jar_ 4. import .zip menu>file>import 5. rename .zip to .jar 6. delete .jar_ 7. rename .zip_ to .zip I still cannot fully search like win2000 does. it only finds my search criteria in file names does non go inside files and does not search content of each file. win2000 did exactly that. and all other windows before that. alex On Thursday, May 20, 2004 at 9:53 am, Brendan wrote: >That helped. For anyone else wanting to do this, you can find the .zip key settings >from my XP machine below. > >Pretty painful switching between .zip and .jar. I couldn't figure out any easier >way to merge the .zip info into the .jar key. If anyone else can, please post it >here. > >Finally, two tips: > > Note the space in "Content Type". > I had to restart my computer (possibly because I tried to open a .jar before >I had everything 100% correct). > > >.jar >  (Default) REG_SZ CompressedFolder >  Content Type REG_SZ application/x-zip-compressed >  PerceivedType REG_SZ compressed > >  CompressedFolder REG_KEY >    ShellNew REG_KEY >      Data REG_BINARY >                    50 48 05 06 00 00 00 00 >                    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >                    00 00 00 00 00 00 > >  OpenWithProgids REG_KEY >    (Default) REG_SZ not set >    CompressedFolder REG_SZ > >  PersistentHandler REG_KEY >    (Default) REG_SZ {098f2470-bae0-11cd-b579-08002b30bfeb} Written in response to: re: I FINALLY got this JAR stuff to work in XP!!! (Brendan: Thursday, May 20, 2004 at 9:53 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] 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) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum