Re: How to prevent xp to display zipped files as folder

If you :

Unregister the .zip support in Windows XP by unregistering its DLL file:

Start button/Run/ then type: regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll


Then click the OK button, Windows XP will no longer show zip files as folders, and you
will also lose all Windows XP native zip functions. You will then have to use a third
party utility for ZIP files, such as WinZip. Winzip will show zip files as files, NOT
folders. You will be able to double click a zip file, and it will open in WinZip,
allowing for extracting the contents of the zip file. You also have the choice of adding
WinZip commands to context menus (right click menus) in Windows Explorer and My Computer.
The context menu command which I use most often is Add to Zip File/New. I select some
files, right click, then left click Add to Zip File, and when the window opens I click the
NEW button. When the dialog box opens I name the new file, then save it to the folder I
where I want it. There are other context menu commands like Zip and Email, which zips the
selected files, allows you to name the new zip file, and opens a compose window of your
default email program with the new zip file already attached. I really like WinZip. It
has many more features than the Windows XP native zip, which also irritated me showing the
zip files as folders. I unregistered the zip folder dll the day that I installed Windows
XP, and installed WinZip. You can download a trial version of WinZip at:

http://www.winzip.com/

unregister the native Windows XP as described above, then reboot. Then install and try
WinZip. If you do not like WinZip. You can always uninstall it, reboot, then get the
native Windows XP zip folders back by:

Start button/Run type:

regsvr32 zipfldr.dll

then click the OK button. But, I doubt whether you will want the native Windows XP zip
folders back, once you have used WinZip for a while. I prefer using the Classic option
for WinZip rather than the wizards.
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<vsrawat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I would like to know more about it before trying it out.

I understand that what you have suggested will solve my problem and zip
files would not be shown as folders.

That is what I want.

But, what other support for zip files will I lose?

Will "Winzip" group of options appear in explorer right click menu?

will .zip open with winzip?

zip is very much required for my activities, thus I can't afford to
loose these two functionalities.

thanks.



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