Re: Winzip use by Microsoft

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Twayne wrote:

Windows XP can extract these files without the use of
third party tools, just right click on the zipped file
and extract the contents.
http://www.mdmproofing.com/iym/tutorials/how-unzip-file/
John


I'm not familiar with MS files being zipped; never came across it except for a few exe's and a cab file or two. But, XP will only be able to unzip them if they were zipped with "legacy" zipping code. I always thought it would work on all zip files too, but found out differently when I got a WinZipped file that wasn't set to Legacy zips.

For future reference, do you know if MS always uses legacy zips?

I don't know. Trish said that the file came from Microsoft, that it was a Microsoft fix of some sort. If it's an XP fix that came from Microsoft in a zipped form I would say that you can pretty well be certain that XP should be able to extract it without the use of third party tools.

John

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