Friday, June 23, 2006
Restoring Windows Native Unzipping
Are you being annoyed by trial software that came with your Windows system, specifically those for unzipping your ZIP archives? Did you know that Windows XP Home and Pro both come with unzipping capability built in?
While there many good archiving programs out there (such as WinZip, WinRAR, WinAce and so on), I think that Windows builtin capability is pretty decent. So to remove the trial software, go to the Add/Remove Programs control panel, find the trial software and remove it. Then do START -> RUN and type the following:
regsvr32 zipfldr.dll
This will restore the unzipping capability in Windows. To uncompress a ZIP archive, right-click the archive and select Extract All....
Windows will extract the contents into a folder located in the same place as the ZIP file.
Last modified on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:44:38 GMT
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