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Help! Cant open zipped files w/ pas
Name: foamdeer Date: May 22, 2008 at 07:19:10 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: Pentium D 2GB RAM Product: HP Media Center
Comment:
I have some compressed password protected files on my computer. I recently did a defrag on my hard drive and the passwords no longer work for any of my zipped files!!! Is there anything I can do to open these files, or am i screwed?
Name: Tubesandwires Date: May 22, 2008 at 10:04:12 Pacific
Reply:
A defrag would have no effect regarding that - what else did you do? What are the file names - RIGHT click on them, look at the Properties of them, and include the file extension.
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Response Number 2
Name: XpUser Date: May 22, 2008 at 10:08:47 Pacific
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I agree with Tubes. There really is no correlation between hard drive defrag & compressed password-protected files.
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Response Number 3
Name: foamdeer Date: May 22, 2008 at 10:18:05 Pacific
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thats the only thing i could think of that i have done differently. is there anything i can do to view the files?
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Response Number 4
Name: XpUser Date: May 22, 2008 at 10:20:54 Pacific
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No - there is no way you can access the file or files in the zipped file without the correct password - according to the following article.
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