The process described in "How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?" did not work for me. It was successful initially, but as soon as I re-associated ZIP files with WinZip, so that I can double click on them to open them, then Explorer went right back to treating them as folders again. Did I miss something, or is this "solution" really that useless?

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Issue regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll from the command prompt.


On Monday, April 29, 2002 at 12:06 pm, PhilHT wrote:
>The process described in "How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP
>files?" did not work for me. It was successful initially, but as soon as I re-associated
>ZIP files with WinZip, so that I can double click on them to open them, then Explorer
>went right back to treating them as folders again. Did I miss something, or is this
>"solution" really that useless?

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Since when is this an annoyance. It's faster to view files and it doesnt take up any more space. I have winzip installed but i only use it for making self-extracting zips

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1. You obviously haven't tried searching for files while haning many zips. It opens 
up and searches though every one. I have over 10,000 zips...
2. Windows has bad support for running apps from a zip (it only extracts the exe).
3. When unzipping it seems to unzip everything to a temp dir, then move it to where 
you want.

Personally I prefer winrar over winzip, but thats just becasue it supports many more 
formats.






On Wednesday, June 12, 2002 at 9:27 am, Bob wrote:
>Since when is this an annoyance. It's faster to view files and it doesnt take up 
>any more space. I have winzip installed but i only use it for making self-extracting 
>zips

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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!


On Friday, October 18, 2002 at 7:40 am, Krurst wrote:

>1. You obviously haven't tried searching for files while haning many zips. It opens 
>up and searches though every one. I have over 10,000 zips...
>2. Windows has bad support for running apps from a zip (it only extracts the exe).
>3. When unzipping it seems to unzip everything to a temp dir, then move it to where 
>you want.
>
>Personally I prefer winrar over winzip, but thats just becasue it supports many 
more 
>formats.
>
>

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I agree with PhilHT - exactly the same thing happened to me. Unfortunately, this solution does appear to be useless. And please, let's not have any more 'help' from people telling us how splendid the built-in XP support is. If we liked it, we wouldn't be asking this website for help to turn it off.


On Monday, April 29, 2002 at 12:06 pm, PhilHT wrote:
>The process described in "How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP
>files?" did not work for me. It was successful initially, but as soon as I re-associated
>ZIP files with WinZip, so that I can double click on them to open them, then Explorer
>went right back to treating them as folders again. Did I miss something, or is this
>"solution" really that useless?

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Thanks Alex, but that's exactly the command that doesn't work.


On Monday, April 29, 2002 at 12:17 pm, Alex wrote:
>Issue
>regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll
>from the command prompt.
>
>
>

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It does work after all, but only if after running the 'zipfldr' dll you re-start the computer, then immediately run the WinZip executable, at which stage it asks if you want to fully associate Zip files with WinZip. If you say yes, it seems to work.


On Monday, April 29, 2002 at 12:06 pm, PhilHT wrote:
>The process described in "How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP
>files?" did not work for me. It was successful initially, but as soon as I re-associated
>ZIP files with WinZip, so that I can double click on them to open them, then Explorer
>went right back to treating them as folders again. Did I miss something, or is this
>"solution" really that useless?

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On Sunday, November 10, 2002 at 12:25 pm, Mike wrote:
>It does work after all, but only if after running the 'zipfldr' dll you re-start
>the computer, then immediately run the WinZip executable, at which stage it asks
>if you want to fully associate Zip files with WinZip. If you say yes, it seems to
>work.
>
> Why is everyone doing this shit, I mean, you can just install winzip and click "keep assocations" or whatever and winzip will just obtain them

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I ran into the same problem with the registry fix. I even tried deleting zipfldr.dll but found that XP's System Restore would restore zipfldr.dll and re-associate it with .ZIP. To finally get around this I had to turn off System Restore (System Properties | System Restore Tab) and then run the registry fix "regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll" and now I can search my harddrive without it looking through every zip file I have and my Winzip program does not have to fight to keep it's association with .zip files.


On Sunday, November 10, 2002 at 2:59 am, Mike wrote:
>
>Thanks Alex, but that's exactly the command that doesn't work.
>
>

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I tried this re-booting trick and it worked for me. WinZip works fine, and search stays out of ZIP files. Finally! Thanks!


On Sunday, November 10, 2002 at 12:25 pm, Mike wrote:
>It does work after all, but only if after running the 'zipfldr' dll you re-start
>the computer, then immediately run the WinZip executable, at which stage it asks
>if you want to fully associate Zip files with WinZip. If you say yes, it seems to
>work.
>
>

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On Sunday, November 10, 2002 at 2:52 am, Mike wrote:
>I agree with PhilHT - exactly the same thing happened to me.
>
>Unfortunately, this solution does appear to be useless. I had the same problem, what I did is run the regsvr32 command and then went to c:\windows\system32 and renamed the zipfldr.dll to zipfldr.dlo. Problem solved. Next time I clicked on a Zip file it asked me which program to use, so I selected the one I wanted and marked "always use this program". Why microsoft makes things so complicated????

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I know it's an old message, but this may have been one of the greatest tips ever. Thanks! Searching like a speed king again! JP


On Sunday, November 10, 2002 at 12:25 pm, Mike wrote:
>It does work after all, but only if after running the 'zipfldr' dll you re-start
>the computer, then immediately run the WinZip executable, at which stage it asks
>if you want to fully associate Zip files with WinZip. If you say yes, it seems to
>work.
>
>

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Thanks heaps, I've had XP for 2 days and it was really annoying me


On Wednesday, January 1, 2003 at 12:56 am, Passenger wrote:
>On Sunday, November 10, 2002 at 2:52 am, Mike wrote:
>I agree with PhilHT - exactly the same thing happened to me.
>
>Unfortunately, this solution does appear to be useless.
>
>I had the same problem, what I did is run the regsvr32 command and then went to c:\windows\system32
>and renamed the zipfldr.dll to zipfldr.dlo. Problem solved.
>
>Next time I clicked on a Zip file it asked me which program to use, so I selected
>the one I wanted and marked "always use this program".
>
>Why microsoft makes things so complicated????

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you can do "regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\cabview.dll" as well to disable XP's built in cab viewer (same thing as the zip viewer)


On Monday, April 29, 2002 at 12:06 pm, PhilHT wrote:
>The process described in "How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP
>files?" did not work for me. It was successful initially, but as soon as I re-associated
>ZIP files with WinZip, so that I can double click on them to open them, then Explorer
>went right back to treating them as folders again. Did I miss something, or is this
>"solution" really that useless?

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The regserv didn't work by itself. I ran it and renamed zipfldr.dll, however, xp instantly created a new one. What I did was let xp create the new dll, opened it in a text editor and deleted the contents. After I saved it I reassociated and now it works. [My boss bought machines with xp on them, I use 2000. Can anyone tell me anything good about xp? It's unstable, it's slow, and the stupid rounded puffy interface is for infants. I have yet to find one improvement, but I am willing to listen.]


On Wednesday, January 1, 2003 at 12:56 am, Passenger wrote:
>On Sunday, November 10, 2002 at 2:52 am, Mike wrote:
>I agree with PhilHT - exactly the same thing happened to me.
>
>Unfortunately, this solution does appear to be useless.
>
>I had the same problem, what I did is run the regsvr32 command and then went to c:\windows\system32
>and renamed the zipfldr.dll to zipfldr.dlo. Problem solved.
>
>Next time I clicked on a Zip file it asked me which program to use, so I selected
>the one I wanted and marked "always use this program".
>
>Why microsoft makes things so complicated????

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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!
>
>

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Late reply, but just in case anyone's interested there's a pretty decent free alternative to WinZip and WinRAR available called IZarc: http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/izarc.htm. Supports many formats, and is legally freeware (author accepts donations).


On Thursday, September 18, 2003 at 2:28 pm, xplatinum wrote:
>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
>

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The problem is that windows shit XP keeps some files in the following directories: C:\WINDOWS\$NtServicePackUninstall$ C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386 C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache C:\WINDOWS\system32 What I did is rename the file zipfldr.dll to zipfldl.dlo in first three directories above. I received a message telling me if I change some files to unknown extensions Windows XP will not function properly. I simply ignore it. I used the command: regsvr32 -u C:\WINDOWS\system32\zipfldr.dll and rename the file in this directory. It works! I am from Brazil and a portugese word that means very bad is "ruim". He we call Windows XP as RUIMDOWS!!! I sugest to use windows 2003(not the server) or better at all: LINUX!!!!!


On Monday, August 4, 2003 at 10:41 am, boscado wrote:
>The regserv didn't work by itself. I ran it and renamed zipfldr.dll, however, xp
>instantly created a new one.
>What I did was let xp create the new dll, opened it in a text editor and deleted
>the contents. After I saved it I reassociated and now it works.
>[My boss bought machines with xp on them, I use 2000. Can anyone tell me anything
>good about xp? It's unstable, it's slow, and the stupid rounded puffy interface is
>for infants. I have yet to find one improvement, but I am willing to listen.]
>
>

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- After unregistering the server, open a command line window as Administrator. - Delete the file %windir%\system32\dllcache\zipfldr.dll. - Rename the file %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll to something without a DLL on the end. - Winbloze will never load that file again, nor will it automagically replace it "for" you, and re-register it. When you run WinZip it will ask to re-associate with ZIPs. Just say yes and drive on without fear...


On Sunday, November 10, 2002 at 12:25 pm, Mike wrote:
>It does work after all, but only if after running the 'zipfldr' dll you re-start
>the computer, then immediately run the WinZip executable, at which stage it asks
>if you want to fully associate Zip files with WinZip. If you say yes, it seems to
>work.
>
>

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Actually, the "Puffy" interface is not required. All you have to do is change the Theme in the Display settings to Windows Classic, and then you won't have to worry about it. And as for instability, I've actually been able to run my XP computer for at least a week at a time. It may be because I have Professional and not Home (among other things, like using Opera 7 instead of IE), but meh.


On Monday, August 4, 2003 at 10:41 am, boscado wrote:
>The regserv didn't work by itself. I ran it and renamed zipfldr.dll, however, xp
>instantly created a new one.
>What I did was let xp create the new dll, opened it in a text editor and deleted
>the contents. After I saved it I reassociated and now it works.
>[My boss bought machines with xp on them, I use 2000. Can anyone tell me anything
>good about xp? It's unstable, it's slow, and the stupid rounded puffy interface is
>for infants. I have yet to find one improvement, but I am willing to listen.]
>
>

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