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How can I disable winXP (or ME) default ZIP handling?

April 26, 2017Default disable handling WinXP Zip

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How can I disable winXP (or ME) default ZIP handling?

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A. 2xExplorer doesn’t fare very well with this new OS feature where ZIP archives behave like folders. Moreover, there are a few bugs in the microsoft implementation and generally you don’t get the quality that purpose-built archive managers like WinRAR or WinZip would offer. To turn off this feature and get back to the good old days of archive management, you need to unregister the DLL that performs this simulation. Just run this command: regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll from within your system directory where this DLL is kept. Then just allow your archive program to take over the ZIP file associations. NOTE: from version Z1 onwards zipfolders are the recommended option for dealing with ZIP archives, if your system has this capability of course.