Enable/Disable Windows Built-in ZIP File Support

Windows XP comes with built-in ZIP file compatibility. There are a few reasons why you might want to disable this. You may have installed a third party compression utility that now does the job but didn't unregister the DLLs when it installed. You may find that the process has become corrupted and that you wish to unregister or reregister the DLLs again. You may have a third party application install and decide that you still like the built-in capability and want to use them both side-by-side. For what ever reason...

Disable:

1. Click the Start button
2. Click Run
3. Type regsvr32 /u %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll
4. Click OK
5. Reboot to have this take full effect

Enable:

1. Click the Start button
2. Click Run
3. Type regsvr32 %windir%\system32\zipfldr.dll
4. Click OK
5. Reboot to have this take full effect

With both of the two above the functionality will return immediately but some features (such as the right click context menu additions) will not be available until after you've rebooted your PC.

OS: XP > Advanced
Date: 01/15/06

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