Annoyances.org
Home » Windows XP Discussion Forum » Message 1138467332 » Entire Thread Search | Help | Home
  
Solution ! to turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files
Showing all messages in thread #1138467332
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum


The following are all of the messages in this thread (9 in all), shown in chronological order. Click any message subject to view that message by itself or to view the thread hierarchy.
Solution ! to turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files
Saturday, January 28, 2006 at 8:55 am
Posted by aleste81 (6 messages posted)

This simple batch file works 100% on Windows XP and beats the System File Checker.

------------------------
UNZIPFLDR.BAT =
------------------------------------------------------
regsvr32 /U ZIPFLDR.DLL
ren C:\WINDOWS\system32\zipfldr.dll ZIPFLDR.OLD
ren C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache\zipfldr.dll ZIPFLDR.OLD
ren C:\WINDOWS\I386\ZIPFLDR.DL_ ZIPFLDR.OLD_
--------------------------------------------------------

[Reply or follow-up to this message]

re: Solution ! to turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files
Saturday, January 28, 2006 at 9:21 am
Posted by jbmcmillan (624 messages posted)

What exactly is the point to doing this???


On Saturday, January 28, 2006 at 8:55 am, aleste81 wrote:
>This simple batch file works 100% on Windows XP and beats the System File Checker.
>
>------------------------
>UNZIPFLDR.BAT =
>------------------------------------------------------
>regsvr32 /U ZIPFLDR.DLL
>ren C:\WINDOWS\system32\zipfldr.dll ZIPFLDR.OLD
>ren C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache\zipfldr.dll ZIPFLDR.OLD
>ren C:\WINDOWS\I386\ZIPFLDR.DL_ ZIPFLDR.OLD_
>--------------------------------------------------------

[Reply or follow-up to this message]

re: Solution ! to turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files
Saturday, January 28, 2006 at 9:22 am
Posted by [S]aint (37 messages posted)

or just go to start > run and type: regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll


On Saturday, January 28, 2006 at 8:55 am, aleste81 wrote:
>This simple batch file works 100% on Windows XP and beats the System File Checker.
>
>------------------------
>UNZIPFLDR.BAT =
>------------------------------------------------------
>regsvr32 /U ZIPFLDR.DLL
>ren C:\WINDOWS\system32\zipfldr.dll ZIPFLDR.OLD
>ren C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache\zipfldr.dll ZIPFLDR.OLD
>ren C:\WINDOWS\I386\ZIPFLDR.DL_ ZIPFLDR.OLD_
>--------------------------------------------------------

[Reply or follow-up to this message]

re: Solution ! to turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files
Thursday, February 2, 2006 at 4:16 pm
Posted by aleste81 (6 messages posted)

Obviously you didn't read the thread you are responding. This method DOESN'T WORK 
since the system file checker or some process automatically REGSVR the DLL AGAIN 
!





On Saturday, January 28, 2006 at 9:22 am, [S]aint wrote:
>or just go to start > run and type:
>regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll

[Reply or follow-up to this message]

re: Solution ! to turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files
Thursday, February 2, 2006 at 4:21 pm
Posted by aleste81 (6 messages posted)

just as it said : to turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files. Plain and simple. What part didn't you understand ?


On Saturday, January 28, 2006 at 9:21 am, jbmcmillan wrote:
>What exactly is the point to doing this???

[Reply or follow-up to this message]

re: Solution ! to turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files
Thursday, February 2, 2006 at 4:30 pm
Posted by aleste81 (6 messages posted)

Note: this post is a fix of the following incorrect article :
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article03-202

[Reply or follow-up to this message]

re: Solution ! to turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files
Thursday, February 2, 2006 at 6:27 pm
Posted by Rich Kurtz (11293 messages posted)

Joe's List / System cleanup

I think the question really was, why do you want to do this? Is it to solve a problem or as an intellectual challenge just to see if it can be done?


Repair install / Clean install

[Reply or follow-up to this message]

re: Solution ! to turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files
Thursday, February 2, 2006 at 9:15 pm
Posted by jbmcmillan (624 messages posted)

Exactly what part did the op not understand.Is there some pressing reason to do this ??Experiment? Some problem having zip support?Or some other reason not being psyhic sorry jerk.


On Thursday, February 2, 2006 at 6:27 pm, Rich Kurtz wrote:
>Joe's List / >href=http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2852>System cleanup


>width="60%" align="left" size=2 color=orange>


>I think the question really was, why do you want to do this? Is it to solve a problem
>or as an intellectual challenge just to see if it can be done?
>



>Repair install
/
>Clean install

[Reply or follow-up to this message]

re: Solution ! to turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files
Friday, March 2, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Posted by jroll9 (1 messages posted)

Thank you !! My windows explorer was regularly coughing up a fur ball when trying to expand a directory with tons of zip files and the unregister solution combined with your mods did the trick.


On Saturday, January 28, 2006 at 8:55 am, aleste81 wrote:
>This simple batch file works 100% on Windows XP and beats the System File Checker.
>
>------------------------
>UNZIPFLDR.BAT =
>------------------------------------------------------
>regsvr32 /U ZIPFLDR.DLL
>ren C:\WINDOWS\system32\zipfldr.dll ZIPFLDR.OLD
>ren C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache\zipfldr.dll ZIPFLDR.OLD
>ren C:\WINDOWS\I386\ZIPFLDR.DL_ ZIPFLDR.OLD_
>--------------------------------------------------------

[Reply or follow-up to this message]

Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread
Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum

All content at Annoyances.org is Copyright © 1995-2008 Creative Elementtm All rights reserved.
Please do not plagiarize; redistributing these pages without permission is strictly prohibited.