Re: Turn off zip file content expansion in disk explorer

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If you have WinZip, it should have turned this off.

However....

How do I turn off Windows XP's built-in support for ZIP files?
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article03-202

What is disk explorer?

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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How does one do that ?

I'd like to see just the files present in the folder without treating the
zip file as a directory. Is there a control to turn off this feature ?

I'm not sure if the expansion is coming from disk explorer or some Winzip
enhancement to disk explorer. Either way, I can't figure out how to turn
it off.

Basically treat zips as files instead of folders.
.

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