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Zip Folder Sucks!
Name: zhmawm Date: January 13, 2006 at 17:27:21 Pacific OS: WinXP CPU/Ram: P4/512
Comment:
I have big zip files, so when I search or open any folder containing such zip files, my system just slows to a crawl.
Name: Johnw Date: January 13, 2006 at 19:09:28 Pacific
Reply:
Click on my name to email me & I can email you an old version of WinZip that I prefer to use.
Next choice, IZArc http://www.izsoft.org/#
Disble XP zip this way.
Disable XP support for zip files http://www.quake3world.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/022654.html http://www.subvers.com/technobabble/html/tweaks/access.htm Windows XP has built-in support for .ZIP files, so that you can view them as normal folders. However, the system uses a sizeable portion of resources doing this, so disabling this feature can increase performance. It's easy to do, you just have to un-register the zipfldr.dll, by going to Start -> Run -> copy & paste -> regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll & press Enter. You should see a message telling you the command was succesfully applied.
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