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Old January 16th 18, 11:11 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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Default zip files and the Windows Explorer

(their second album was rubbish)

Sometimes (I think), when a .zip file is double-clicked on, it appears
in the left pane as if it were a directory (folder). More often, it
appears in its own window, with the "for babies" left pane, which if you
then click on the "Folders" button, turns the left pane into the one I
described first - i. e. it shows the zip file as if it was a folder.

What determines the behaviour? Is there, for example, a setting
somewhere (registry or otherwise) that forces the zip-file-as-folder
display (or the other format, for those that don't like the first)?
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Old January 16th 18, 08:17 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Bill in Co
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Default zip files and the Windows Explorer

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
(their second album was rubbish)

Sometimes (I think), when a .zip file is double-clicked on, it appears
in the left pane as if it were a directory (folder). More often, it
appears in its own window, with the "for babies" left pane, which if you
then click on the "Folders" button, turns the left pane into the one I
described first - i. e. it shows the zip file as if it was a folder.

What determines the behaviour? Is there, for example, a setting
somewhere (registry or otherwise) that forces the zip-file-as-folder
display (or the other format, for those that don't like the first)?


Check out the link below as I think it might be of help. I went through
this before too.

https://www.mydigitallife.net/turn-o...essed-folders/


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Old January 16th 18, 09:45 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default zip files and the Windows Explorer

Bill in Co wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
(their second album was rubbish)

Sometimes (I think), when a .zip file is double-clicked on, it appears
in the left pane as if it were a directory (folder). More often, it
appears in its own window, with the "for babies" left pane, which if you
then click on the "Folders" button, turns the left pane into the one I
described first - i. e. it shows the zip file as if it was a folder.

What determines the behaviour? Is there, for example, a setting
somewhere (registry or otherwise) that forces the zip-file-as-folder
display (or the other format, for those that don't like the first)?


Check out the link below as I think it might be of help. I went through
this before too.

https://www.mydigitallife.net/turn-o...essed-folders/


Unregistering the two DLLs, eliminates Windows Search
inside ZIP, and can speed up your search (if Indexing
is not enabled).

WinXP search fix.

regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll
regsvr32 /u cabview.dll

I don't think I'd bother modifying the "burrow into ZIP"
when double clicking on a file. Unless there was a way
to associate it with 7ZIP. And since the right click menu
has all the 7ZIP stuff in it, it's not that much extra work
to access the file content through the 7ZIP menu it provides.

Paul

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Old January 17th 18, 12:52 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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Default zip files and the Windows Explorer

In message , Paul
writes:
Bill in Co wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
(their second album was rubbish)

Sometimes (I think), when a .zip file is double-clicked on, it appears
in the left pane as if it were a directory (folder). More often, it
appears in its own window, with the "for babies" left pane, which if you
then click on the "Folders" button, turns the left pane into the one I
described first - i. e. it shows the zip file as if it was a folder.

What determines the behaviour? Is there, for example, a setting
somewhere (registry or otherwise) that forces the zip-file-as-folder
display (or the other format, for those that don't like the first)?

Check out the link below as I think it might be of help. I went
through this before too.

https://www.mydigitallife.net/turn-o...s-xp-built-in-
zip-support-and-compressed-folders/


Unregistering the two DLLs, eliminates Windows Search
inside ZIP, and can speed up your search (if Indexing
is not enabled).

WinXP search fix.

regsvr32 /u zipfldr.dll
regsvr32 /u cabview.dll

I don't think I'd bother modifying the "burrow into ZIP"
when double clicking on a file. Unless there was a way

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Thanks, both, for those. Unfortunately, those seem to be ways to _stop_
the handling of zips as if folders - which I know many don't want, so
the above could be useful; unfortunately, I _do_ want it, and was
looking for a way to make it come on _more_ often.
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