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re: I FINALLY got this JAR stuff to work in XP!!!
Sunday, November 21, 2004 at 8:38 pm
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Posted by Guttmann (1 messages posted)

1. Open up the registry editor
2. Highlight My Computer and select File - Export (this will backup all your registry 
settings)
3. Highlight HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jar and right-click on it to export it to a file 
called oldjar.reg
4. Delete HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jar
5. Highlight HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.zip and right-click on it to export it to a file 
called newjar.reg
6. Edit newjar.reg with a text editor like notepad
7. In the file, replace .zip with .jar
8. Save the file
9. Double-click on newjar.reg to import the new key into your registry
10. Reboot and enjoy!

You might want to keep oldjar.reg around if you ever need to revert to the older 
.jar behavior (unlikely).

Good luck!

G

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)

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